This Hitchcock movie is filled with suspense, until the lousy end... 1941. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
The orderly Lina (Joan Fontaine) meet the charming Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) and he totally sweeps her off her feet and soon after, they get married. Lina is madly in love with her dear husband, but she can't help feeling doubt when she realizes that Johnnie is a gambler.
She's terrifyed when he tells her that he haven't got any money. She used to live a rich life, now she's living with a man that one day can be rich, and the other day without a single penny.
Lina also starts being afraid of him as she suspects that he's a murderer. She doesn't trust him, and every day she becomes more and more frightened that he will might assassinate her to get her money. Is this the truth or is it just imagination?
This film is really good and you can feel that it's a Hitchcock picture. It contains the suspense, the charm and great cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr. You can understand what Lina is feeling and it's sometimes very exiting.
But then, the ending comes. That's where everything is destroyed. The movie could have been so good, but this is such a pathetic ending that the earlier parts of the movie are forgotten when this awful ending changes everything. Sad that Hitchcock didn't get the ending that he really wanted, because it's obvious that this wasn't what Hitchcock had wanted it to be.
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