Suspicion (1941, Alfred Hitchcock)
Suspicion is a 1941 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
1938; Seductive playboy Johnnie Aysgarth meets young Lina McLaidlaw on a train in England, coning her to go out with him.
The subject is taken from the novel Before the Fact by Anthony Berkeley Cox, written and published in 1932 under the pseudonym of Francis Iles. RKO had been trying to bring the book to the screen since 1935 and Emily Williams was approached for the screenplay.
Hitchcock hired Samson Raphaelson, a successful collaborator on many of Ernst Lubitsch's film, to write the screenplay.
The part of the male protagonist was entrusted to Cary Grant, in the first of four Hitchcock films he played. The part of the female protagonist was entrusted to Joan Fontaine, in her second film with Hitchcock after Rebecca.
The film was shot entirely in the studio and cost much less than the previous two American films, Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent.
Before the Fact is the story of Lina, who grows up in the countryside in the first decades of the 20th century. Lina and Johnnie spend their honeymoon in Paris, staying in the best hotels and subsequently settle in London, in a large apartment. They leave their expensive London flat and move to Dorset, where they don't know anyone.
In 1943,a group of Italian actors were in Madrid to participate in a Spanish-Italian co-production film, among them Emilio Cigoli, Paola Barbara, Nerio Bernardi, Franco Coop, Anita Farra, Felice Romano; the events of 25 July and 8 September of the same year prevented these actors from returning to Italy.
A representative of 20th Century Fox in Madrid asked the Italian actors, while waiting to return home, to take care of the dubbing of some films of the American company, so that upon the arrival of the Americans in Italy, with the reopening of the cinema market, could be ready for theaters.
