Suspicion (1941)

This is the first movie that the "Master of Suspense" (Alfred Hitchcock) used Cary Grant as his leading man, and it's certainly the weakest in the four film series (perhaps in part because the suspicion is whether or not Mr. Grant's character is the bad guy!). It's the second (and last) time he used Joan Fontaine as his leading lady, though her understated performance earned her several awards including the Oscar. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, and Leo G. Carroll (among others) also appear. The most memorable scenes are near the film's end when Grant's character climbs the stairs carrying a glass of milk for Ms. Fontaine's (the intimation being that it is poisoned) and a wild car ride along a dangerous road with cliffs. Ms. Fontaine not only won her Academy Award for Best Actress, she also received the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress Award. The film also received two other Academy Award nominations: Best Picture and for Franz Waxman's Score. The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison (Rebecca (1940)), and the director's wife Alma Reville, from the novel Before the Fact by Francis Iles aka Anthony Berkeley.

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