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Let's be realistic.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Suspicion (1941) was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Cary Grant as Johnnie, Joan Fontaine as his wife Linda, and Nigel Bruce as Johnnie's friend Beaky. Hitchcock was a genius, Grant was incredibly handsome, and Fontaine was very beautiful. The sets appear primitive to us, but we can't forget that the film was made more than 75 years ago.The fact that a woman like Linda would love a liar and ne'er-do-well like Johnnie may have made more sense in 1941 than it does now. Still, she was naive and he was handsome and personable. The ending of the film is a cop-out, but the first 75% was successful. We saw this movie on the small screen, where it worked well. This isn't a movie that you must see, but if you like Hitchcock and you like good acting, it's worth finding and seeing.

Lina, a woman on the verge of being an old maid, falls in love with Johnnie and marries him without knowing anything about him. That she did not know he was a congenital liar, compulsive gambler, and embezzler until after she married him might be understandable, but that she did not even know that he had no job nor any intention of getting one is ludicrous. Soon she begins to suspect that he murdered Beaky to get his money and that he will try to murder her for the same reason. In the last reel, we have one of those unbelievable character changes for which Hollywood movies are notorious, in which Johnnie realizes how bad he has been and is prepared to go to prison, after having given up on the idea of committing suicide. And when Lina realizes that Johnnie is not a murderer, the way is open to them to live happily ever after.This might have been two different movies. Most people know about one of them. In this one, Johnnie did murder Beaky and he gives Lina a glass of milk with poison in it. She drinks it, because she does not want to live anymore. But before she does, she gives Johnnie a letter to mail for her, in which she includes incriminating evidence that Johnnie is a murderer. Johnnie drops the letter in a mailbox and walks away whistling, not realizing that he has sealed his doom. There is some debate as to whether that is the ending Hitchcock wanted, but that the studio imposed a happy ending, or whether Hitchcock intended all along to make the movie be about a neurotic woman's overwrought imagination. It doesn't matter who wanted what. This would have been a much better movie.The other movie that might have been would have been one in which there is neither a murder nor suspicion of murder (requiring a different title, of course). It is a movie that would have been unendurable. There would have been no relief from the fact that Johnnie has married Lina for her money and is annoyed to find out it does not amount to as much as he thought it would, especially when her father dies and does not leave her anything more than her usual allowance. We would have been left with Lina's being married to a compulsive liar, who hocks her beloved chairs so he can bet on the horses; who believes he was not meant to have to work for a living, and when forced to take a job managing an estate, soon gets caught embezzling funds; and who cons Beaky into investing in a real estate venture that we know will only result in losing money as Johnnie squanders the investment on loose living. And there would have been no relief from the fact that Lina will continue to put up with this because she loves Johnnie.In other words, we need at least the possibility of murder to be introduced halfway into the movie as a way of making us forget about what a horrible marriage this is. This takes us back to the first two movies, the one that was and the one that might have been. That Johnnie is a despicable human being even if he is not a murderer goes without saying. But there is something disgusting about Lina as well. Her foolishness in marrying Johnnie in the first place is practically an argument in favor of having parents arrange marriages for their daughters. And all that mewing about love as she puts up with Johnnie's abuse is sickening. Finally, Beaky's attitude toward Johnnie, that we must all forgive everything that Johnnie does because, well, that's just the way Johnnie is, is also irritating.They all deserve to die. So a movie in which Beaky is murdered by Johnnie, in which Lina is murdered by Johnnie, and in which Johnnie is sentenced to die as a result of that incriminating letter would have been most satisfying.

Playboy Johnny Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets quiet Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train. He flirts with her and she eventually lets down her guard. They run away to get marry despite her disapproving father. She starts to discover his true nature afterward. He's a jobless, penniless gambler. He goes to work for his cousin Captain Melbeck after she insists on him getting a job. Johnny's friend Beaky (Nigel Bruce) tells her that he is still a lovable gambler. He got fired for embezzling his cousin and he has sold the family heirloom chairs. Lina's father dies and Johnny is annoyed that Lina gets nothing of value. Johnny talks the gullible Beaky into investing in a scheme. Lina tries to talk Beaky out of it. Later Beaky is dead. Lina has suspicion that Johnny may have killed him and trying to kill her for the insurance money.Cary Grant is so charming that it's no problem to believe Joan Fontaine would fall for him completely. The trick by Hitchcock is throw every doubt on the man. Everything he's ever done is a clue. Did he even purchase the first class ticket in the first place or was he stalking her? Hitchcock makes it easy to believe that he could actually kill. Grant is so charming that every lie is unnerving. Fontaine is reflecting every fear that Hitchcock lays out for the audience.

Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion is a movie with a great suspenseful mood where Lina Auysgarth (Joan Fontaine) suspects that her husband John (Cary Grant)suspects that he is going to kill her. Though I really liked the story, acting, writing, and directing. My 2 biggest gripes with this movie is a small part of the story which is that Fontaine's character suspects that Grant's character is going to kill him when she visualized him killing Mr. Thwaite she just faints and just jumps to the conclusion that she may be the next target when she isn't. The ending just isn't an original Hitchcock ending because Grant and Fontaine end up happily ever after (really not like other Hitchcock movies). But in the end it is a well done movie with equally wonderful work from the cast and crew to this movie.On average 9.8/10= 98%