Who can you trust?

My husband rents Hitchcock's when there is nothing else to rent. He doesn't read suspense novels, but I may make him some day. Suspicion is one he hadn't seen.

We started and stopped it three times - it was so slow. No one was dying. The plot?

A rich but sort of frumpy girl overhears her parents saying she is a great spinster (what is it this weekend, having also watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding and now....). She has just met a man, and perhaps to prove her parents wrong, she becomes involved with him. Philanderer, gambler, no job....She of course, marries him.

Johnny (aren't they all named Johnny?) spends too much money on the honeymoon, buys a beautiful house and hires a maid, and then tells his wife he doesn't have a job. Somehow they keep the house and the maid, but Johnny is upset when the new father-in-law gives them two chairs as a wedding gift. This is step one in her suspicion. He hocks the chairs, and uses the cash to bet on a horse, who wins.

Then, she learns he has been fired from his job (how they are surviving, of course, is an excusable story mover) and accused of theft, to which he admits. The man, a relative, says he will give Johnny time to repay the debt before filing charges. Then, his best friend dies....

then her father dies. A very bad day.

On this movie goes, as Cary Grant is then a suspicious character to her, involving him trying to get a loan on her life insurance policy and being declined. Add to this that a best friend writes detective mysteries about murder, and conversations Johnny has with her....and suddenly you think YOUR life is in jeopardy with this guy.


I am not going to spoil the ending, but it is of course not what you think. I didn't see Hitchcock in this one, but he was probably in the hunt scene at the beginning of the movie. To think it started on a train in a dark tunnel. Alfred, you Freudian genius.

So, not as good as The Birds, for instance, or Psycho, or the others, but okay. This ends abruptly, no real last words or denouement. But that's how it was then. It's Over, Go Home.

Rent this, no bad words, no bloody violence. A refreshing brain challenge from some of our movies today. But, it is SLOW!