Suspicion (1941) by Alfred Hitchcock

I have always been an admirer of Alfred Hitchcock and that's the reason for beginning my blogging views with his movie. The movie starts with a charming 'Cary Grant' entering a first class compartment of a train which is already been occupied by beautiful 'Joan Fontaine', the chance meeting obviously results in an under current between the 'charming' and the 'beautiful'. Thus starts the story of a woman who falls for a guy whom she barely know. After getting married she realises that her husband is broke and is expecting support from her family, and thus starts a series of events where she is not able to comprehend whether her husband is a careless happy go lucky fellow or a crook with a high possibility of being a murderer.

As always Hitchcock delivers a story which keeps you guessing most of the time, but leaves you with a dissatisfied feeling in the end, surely the climax could have been better, the reason may be because the film is an adaptation from a book called 'Before the Fact', and the end of the book is quite different than shown in the movie. It is said that Alfred Hitchcock went with the changes but was dissatisfied himself. Cary Grant's character keeps you guessing and his performance is actually the life blood of the movie, Nigel Bruce as Cary Grant's friend is extremely like able and Joan Fontaine as a caring but suspicious wife performs her role most effectively.

On the whole a good movie with an alright kind of climax, but good performances and captivating narrative makes it a 'could watch movie'.