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Suspicions
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This Alfred Hitchcock Poster featuring the film Suspicions will transport you into the atmosphere of the famous director's film!
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- 🎨 Canvas: world standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” appearance .
- By default, the poster contains a 4 cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don't want it, please choose "without white border".
- ✅ Size: several choices available . ✅
- Great UV resistance .
- Maximum color vibrancy, without reflections .
- Recycled paper, guaranteeing respect for the environment.
- Poster carefully packaged and delivered in a protective tube for total protection .
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Description of this Alfred Hitchcock Poster
Suspicions is a 1941 romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. Also included are Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel and Leo G. Carroll. Suspicion is based on Francis Iles' novel Before the Fact (1932).
For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. This is the only Academy Award-winning performance in a Hitchcock film.
In the film, a romantically inexperienced woman marries a charming playboy after initially rejecting him. He turns out to be penniless, playful and dishonest in the extreme. She comes to suspect that he is also a murderer and is trying to kill her.
In 1938, handsome and irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train in England and then persuades her to go on a walk with him. She is defensive and suspicious of his motives; he insults her in an attempt to create familiarity. But later, at a window, she hears her parents talking about her. They assume she will never marry and, hurt, she kisses Johnnie.
She hopes to hear from him but he cancels their afternoon meeting and disappears. However, he returns for a hunting ball a week later and charms her into running away despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After a lavish honeymoon and return to an extravagant home, Lina discovers that Johnnie has no job or income, usually lives on borrowed money, and was planning to try to exploit his father. She persuades him to get a job and he goes to work for her cousin, real estate agent Captain Melbeck (Leo G. Carroll).
Little by little, Lina learns that Johnnie continued to gamble wildly, despite his promise to stop, and that to pay off a gambling debt, he sold two antique chairs (family heirlooms) that his father had given him as a gift. wedding gift. Beaky (Nigel Bruce), Johnnie's naive but good-natured friend, tries to reassure Lina by telling her that her husband is a lot of fun and that he is a very amusing liar. She catches Johnnie in escalating lies, discovering that he was fired weeks before for embezzling money from Melbeck, who says he won't sue him if the money is returned.
Lina writes a letter to Johnnie telling him she is leaving him, but then tears it up. After this, Johnnie enters the room and shows him a telegram announcing his father's death. Johnnie is very disappointed to discover that Lina did not inherit any money, but only her father's portrait. He convinces Beaky to finance an extremely speculative land development project. Lina fears this is a trick or worse, and tries in vain to convince Beaky not to do it. Johnnie hears this and furiously warns his wife not to meddle in his affairs, but later calls the whole thing off.
When Beaky leaves for Paris, Johnnie partly goes with him. Later, Lina learns that Beaky died in Paris. Johnnie lies to him and a police inspector that he (Johnnie) stayed in London. This lie and other details lead Lina to suspect him of being responsible for Beaky's death.
Lina then begins to fear that her husband is plotting to kill her in exchange for her life insurance. He questions his friend Isobel Sedbusk (Auriol Lee), author of detective novels, about the untraceable poisons. Johnnie brings Lina a glass of milk before bed, but she is too scared to drink it. Needing to get away for a bit, she says she's going to stay with her mother for a few days. Johnnie insists on driving him there. He speeds in a powerful convertible down a dangerous road next to a cliff. Lina's door opens unexpectedly. Johnnie holds out his arm, his intention unclear to the terrified woman. When she backs up in front of him, he stops the car.
During the subsequent confrontation, Johnnie claims that he actually intended to kill himself after taking Lina to his mother's house. He then declares that he has decided that suicide is a cowardly solution and that he is determined to face his responsibilities, even to the point of going to prison for the embezzlement. He reveals that he was in Liverpool at the time of Beaky's death and was trying to borrow against Lina's life insurance policy to pay off Melbeck. His suspicions dissipate and Lina asks him to come home and see it all together. Johnnie refuses at first, but they end up driving away together.
