Suspicion (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Suspicion |
| Original title | Suspicion |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| script |
Samson Raphaelson , Joan Harrison , Alma Reville |
| production |
Harry E. Edington for RKO Pictures |
| music | Franz Waxman |
| camera | Harry Stradling Sr. |
| cut | William Hamilton |
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Suspicion is a psychological thriller by Alfred Hitchcock in the year 1941 with Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine in the lead roles. The novel Before the Fact wrote Anthony Berkeley under the pseudonym Francis Iles. The film was produced by RKO .
action
Johnny Aysgarth - a handsome and charming young man - meets the shy Lina McLaidlaw, the daughter of a strict ex-general, during a train ride and borrows some money from her for the train ticket. In a book, Lina discovers Johnny in a photo of high society and concludes that he is rich and respected. Although she initially behaves coolly towards him, she quickly feels drawn to him. Some time later they meet again at a hunters' ball: Johnny may be a crush of girls - everyone seems to know him, and he seems to flirt with everyone - but he is only interested in Lina. They secretly marry against the wishes of Lina's father, who has heard that Johnny is a no-brainer. After a long honeymoon through Europe, the newlyweds move into a villa in a village in Sussex .
After a short time, however, Lina discovered that her husband also had dark sides: Johnny turned out to be a player who sells the wedding present from Lina's father - a family heirloom of the McLaidlaws - and bets the money received on the racecourse. Lina is also warned by Johnny's best friend Beaky that her husband is an incorrigible, but extremely charming gamer who always tells the most entertaining lies. Several times Johnny Lina promises to improve and accepts a job as a broker with his cousin Captain Melbeck.
During a visit to the realtor's office, Lina learns that her husband was released six weeks ago for embezzlement. However, Captain Melbeck promises not to be brought to justice if Johnny repays the misappropriated money.
Disappointed by the embezzlement and concealment, Lina wants to leave Johnny. However, she is prevented from doing so when, surprisingly, her father dies of a heart attack. Johnny is disappointed with the small inheritance when he and Lina inherit only one portrait.
Now Johnny wants to start a shaky real estate company with Beaky, financed with the money of the naive-good-natured Beaky. Lina warns Beaky about Johnny's wasted money and tricks, but Johnny insists that his wife stay out of the company, but later gives up his real estate plan.
When Beaky wants to go to Paris to liquidate the company, Johnny wants to accompany him to London. Shortly afterwards, Lina learns from the police that Beaky died under mysterious circumstances in Paris. The circumstances of Beaky's death, and that the hotel told her on the phone that Johnny had left, lead Lina to conclude that her husband was responsible for Beaky's death. She begins to secretly read his mail and finally, based on the contents of a letter, she is convinced that her husband is trying to poison her to get her life insurance. Johnny also questions his girlfriend, the crime author Isobel Sedbusk, intensively about the use and properties of poisonous substances.
One evening Johnny brings Lina a glass of milk to bed. Fearing that it is poisoned, she leaves it. The next morning Lina packs her things and wants to move in with her mother at least for a while; Johnny insists on driving them. While driving quickly along the steep cliff, her suspicions grow into panic when her car door suddenly opens. Johnny reaches over to her, which she interprets as an attempt to push her out. A final debate ensues: Johnny wanted to put an end to his life all along. Now he wants to face his responsibility, even if he has to be behind bars for the embezzlement at Melbeck. At the time of Beaky's death he was in Liverpool to raise money for Melbeck. Lina believes Johnny, and so the couple are reconciled.
background
The novel by Francis Iles had a completely different ending: Lina drinks the milk, although she is aware of the deadly ingredient, and sends her crying husband out. She takes the decision about her end out of her hands from her murderous but now hesitant husband. The book closes with the words: “It did seem a pity that she had to die, when she would have liked so much to live” (German: “It was really a shame that she had to die when she would have loved to live "), With which the murderer throws a letter from Lina that unmasked him into the box.
Such an ending was considered unattractive in the American film world of 1941 - neither the Hays Code nor large parts of the audience and Cary Grant himself would have accepted him as a cold-blooded murderer of women; So it had to be a happy ending . However, when a senior RKO employee cut the Hitchcock version to less than 60 minutes after rigorously removing all suspicions against the main actor, the studio boss allowed the director to reinsert most of the eliminated scenes. So the film came to the cinemas with the rather abrupt happy ending.
In his conversation with François Truffaut , Hitchcock admitted that he didn't like the end of the film. “I had another very different from the one in the novel. At the end of the film, when Cary Grant brings Joan Fontaine the poisoned milk, she should have written a letter to her mother: Dear mother, I love him madly, but I don't want to live any longer. He wants to kill me and I'd rather die there. But I think society needs to be protected from him. “Hitchcock planned to ask Cary Grant to post the letter, which the latter does unsuspectingly. Hitchcock also highlighted Joan Fontaine's performance: “Right from the first recordings (...) I knew she was the closest thing to the character. At first I found that she was little aware of her acting skills, but I saw that she had a talent for controlled play and thought she was able to play the role in a quiet, shy way ”. In the scene where Johnny climbs the stairs to bring Lina the glass of milk, Hitchcock achieved the elevation of the prop - the glow of the supposedly deadly drink - by installing a light in the liquid.
The dog in the film is a Sealyham Terrier . Hitchcock himself held Sealyhams for several years. In his film The Birds , Sealyhams also accompany his cameo as he leaves the pet store. Hitchcock himself also suspects a cameo as usual when he drops a letter at the local post office.
In 1988, based on the same script, the remake Suspicion appeared for the American Playhouse television series . The scenes and dialogues of this English production are almost identical to the original, they have just been modernized together with the equipment.
synchronization
The first dubbed version was produced in 1948 in the Tempelhof film studio. The second dubbed version was created in 1965 at Berliner Synchron under dialogue direction by Klaus von Wahl , the dialogue book was written by Bodo Francke. Today only the second dubbed version is used.
| role | actor | Dubbing (1948) | Dubbing (1965) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth | Joan Fontaine | Victoria of Ballasko | Ilse Kiewiet |
| John Aysgarth | Cary Grant | Axel Monjé | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Beaky Thwaite | Nigel Bruce | CW castle | Bruno W. Pantel |
| General McLaidlaw | Cedric Hardwicke | Erwin Biegel | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Mrs. McLaidlaw | May Whitty | Margarete Schön | Elf tailors |
| Ethel, maid | Heather Angel | Eva Maria Bruck | Marianne Lutz |
| Isobel Sedbusk | Auriol Lee | Erna Sellmer | Eva Eras |
| Mrs. Newsham | Isabel Jeans | ??? | Elisabeth Ried |
| Captain Melbeck, John's boss | Leo G. Carroll | ??? | Kurt Waitzmann |
| Inspector Hodgson | Lumsden Hare | ??? | Robert Klupp |
| Detective Benson | Vernon Downing | ??? | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Dr. Bertram Sedbusk, Isobel's brother | Gavin Gordon | ??? | Wolfgang Spier |
| Reggie Wetherby, Lina's dance partner | Reginald Sheffield | ??? | Arnold Marquis |
| Mrs. Barham | Violet Shelton | ??? | Gisela Reissmann |
| Winnie | Maureen Roden-Ryan | ??? | Ursula Grabley |
| Train conductor | Billy Bevan | ??? | Knut Hartwig |
| photographer | Clyde Cook | ??? | Erich Kestin |
Reviews
The film premiered in the United States on November 14, 1941. The film was a hit with critics and hit the box office. To this day, suspicion has received mostly positive reviews in the end, despite the occasional criticism. For example, it has a rating of 96% on the US critic portal Rotten Tomatoes , based on 28 reviews.
The lexicon of international film writes: “A quiet thriller in the style of a chamber play, excellently composed in the increase in tension, oscillating between melodrama and ironic wink and skillfully operating with the ambivalence of appearance and reality.” The Süddeutsche Zeitung judged: “The subsequent high-tension artist At that time, Alfred Hitchcock still relied entirely on the psychological nuance. "
Awards
- 1941: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Joan Fontaine (Category: Best Actress )
- 1942: Oscar for Joan Fontaine ( best actress ), two further nominations ( best film , best film music - drama)
- 1948: Kinema Junpo Award for Alfred Hitchcock (Best Foreign Language Film)
literature
- Francis Iles [Anthony Berkeley]: Before the act. A classic detective novel from 1932 (OT: Before the fact) . Heyne, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-453-10435-8
- Robert A. Harris, Michael S. Lasky, eds. Joe Hembus: Alfred Hitchcock and his films (OT: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock) . Citadel film book from Goldmann, Munich 1976. ISBN 3-442-10201-4
- François Truffaut: Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do it? Updated paperback edition. Munich: Heyne 2003. ISBN 978-3-453-86141-1
Web links
- Suspected in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for suspicion . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2006 (PDF; test number: 25 910 V / DVD / UMD).
- ^ Robert A. Harris, Michael S. Lasky: Alfred Hitchcock and his films . Ed .: Joe Hembus. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1976 (original edition).
- ↑ Quoted from Hitchcock / Truffaut, p. 131 f.
- ↑ Quoted from Hitchcock / Truffaut, p. 130.
- ↑ Suspicion (1948) in the German synchronous index
- ↑ Suspicion (1965) in the German synchronous index
- ↑ Suspicion. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
- ↑ suspicion. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 27, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. Zul Suspicion entry in the Academy Awards Database (accessed November 14, 2016).