What is Suspicion / Saboteur about?

Name: Suspicion / Saboteur
Genre: Action/Adventure,Romance

SUSPICION, 1941, Warner Bros., 99 min. Hitchcock’s technique takes a huge leap forward with this extremely unsettling piece of “escapist” entertainment. Young wife Joan Fontaine suspects that her husband Cary Grant is trying to kill her, and the question of whether she’s prescient or paranoid dominates the film. Throughout the movie Hitchcock toys with our assumptions, a conceit that works thanks to Grant’s astonishing performance. SABOTEUR, 1942, Universal, 108 min. Alfred Hitchcock transfers the successful formula of his British films to Hollywood by telling yet another story of a falsely accused man on the run: this time it’s Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, an aircraft worker who is blamed for an explosion at his factory. As Kane hunts down the real saboteurs, Hitchcock uses his familiar chase structure to justify slyly satirical musings on patriotism and its flipside, paranoia—ideas which culminate in the wonderful climax set on top of the Statue of Liberty.

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What is Suspicion / Saboteur about?: SUSPICION, 1941, Warner Bros., 99 min. Hitchcock’s technique takes a huge leap forward with this extremely unsettling piece of “escapist” entertainment. Young wife Joan Fontaine suspects that her husband Cary Grant is trying to kill her, and the question of whether she’s prescient or paranoid dominates the film. Throughout the movie Hitchcock toys with our assumptions, a conceit that works thanks to Grant’s astonishing performance.

SABOTEUR, 1942, Universal, 108 min. Alfred Hitchcock transfers the successful formula of his British films to Hollywood by telling yet another story of a falsely accused man on the run: this time it’s Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, an aircraft worker who is blamed for an explosion at his factory. As Kane hunts down the real saboteurs, Hitchcock uses his familiar chase structure to justify slyly satirical musings on patriotism and its flipside, paranoia—ideas which culminate in the wonderful climax set on top of the Statue of Liberty.