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Release Date: 07 September, 2004 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $14.99 You SAVE: $4.99! Cast: |
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The main enemy is within your mind!
A timid woman, overprotected by his father a General, finds apparently the expected love and shelter in a man of doubtful reputation, fond of women and hard gambler who did not hesitate for a second to sell his soul to get some money.
In this state of complementariness, one each other finds shelter (one of them economic, the other one, emotional and affective) the tension will be gradually increasing due the serious suspects he may kill with the same easiness he lies. She will be upset, but this growing doubt will affect her whole behavior leading her to the verge of the neurosis.
Although, the original plot is even bleakest, other interests interloped to present a smooth version in which a forced redemption will emerge from the blossomed heart of his beloved wife. This alteration whatever their causes might be, weakened the basic structure of the movie. That 's why I can not assign the expected Five Stars. If I had been Hitchcock, I would have kept a Director version, for better times, perhaps.
A well constructed drama with all the basic elements of Hitchcock. Fontaine won an Academy Award for this acting in 1941.
Cary Grant Meets Hitchcock
This is sort of a follow up to Rebecca. Joan Fontaine is still a demure woman who meets a man and blossoms but this time she is a wealthy demure woman.
Lina (Fontaine) is returning home on the train when she meets the suave, charming, rogue John (Johnnie) Aysgarth (Cary Grant). He is going fox hunting and sees her again. He uses his charms to meet her again. Lina is completely taken by him even though her parents dislike his reputation. He finally calls her and they meet at the Fox Hunt Ball.
It's a whirlwind romance and marriage. Johnnie wants to prove that he has reformed and takes a job. One day Johnnie's old friend Binky (Nigel "Dr. Watson" Bruce) and mentions that he saw Johnnie at the race track. Lina starts to get suspicious of Johnnie. Things are missing around the house.
One day Lina is out shopping and runs into her old friend Isobelle Lenke, an author of murder mysteries. She also runs into a couple of missing chairs at the pawn shop. Johnnie arrives home; he backed the winner at the races. He has won £2,000. He admits that he used the chairs for the stake.
Isobelle comes for dinner and Johnnie starts asking her about her books and ways of killing people. This of course makes Lina even more suspicious.
Things get worse when Binky has an accident and dies. She starts to fear that she is next.
This was a breakout movie for Grant. Johnnie is a complex role. He is both good and bad. This role helped him break out of his romantic lead role for more interesting roles.
For Fontaine, this was not a great stretch. She had just played a similar role in Hitchcock's Rebecca. But she was stunning in her control of character.
This is early Hollywood Hitchcock and shows us early what he could do.
DVD EXTRAS: Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock - A 21 minute making of featurette. Not as good as some of the other featurettes but still worth watching.
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