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Alfred Hitchcock’s SUSPICION Saturday Morning at The Hi-Pointe
“If you’re going to kill someone, do it simply.”
Alfred Hitchcock’s SUSPICION screens at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater this weekend as part of their Classic Film Series. It’s Saturday, July 9th at 10:30am at the Hi-Pointe located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117. Admission is only $5
Joan Fontaine won the 1941 Oscar for Best Actress for SUSPICION as the heiress who marries cad Cary Grant and then thinks that maybe he is trying to kill her. Cary Grant? Well, what do you think? This Hitchcock movie is one of his most underrated; it’s psychologically taut and it’s very entertaining. Grant’s innocence is hardly ever in doubt, despite the proliferation of red-herrings, but Hitchcock knows which buttons to push to create suspicion not just in Joan but in the audience.
Many thought Fontaine’s Oscar was a sympathy prize for having lost the year before for her performance as the second Mrs DeWinter in Hitchcock’s previous film REBECCA and there are similarities between the characters but t SUSPICION is still a great film. Grant, of course, is magnificent. In a way his performance slightly off-balances the film. Although British, he displays a cocky, brash American charisma and because of it he makes the character of Johnnie ever so slightly dangerous. Psychopathic? Perhaps, which is why Hitchcock probably cast him.
You’ll have the opportunity to see SUSPICION on the big screen this Saturday at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater. The film starts at 10:30 and admission is only $5
The Hi-Pointe’s site can be found HERE
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