This is one of Hitchcock's best films. The ending, I would argue, is a trick, and is actually rather ambiguous. Nothing is resolved. She is either going back to live happily ever after or she's going to drink the milk and keel over dead.

Pretty slow and boring, although Grant and Fontaine are great but this movie is not the example why we all love Hitchcock.

The first 30 minutes are just dreadful; from there the film slowly but steadily becomes more interesting, until the last 40 minutes which finally deliever the hitchcockian suspense we've been waiting for, and how. Still a complete hour is too much to wait for it, and overall this comes out as a mediocre effort from Hitchcock, although still worthwhile. The studio-imposed ending didn't help one bit, neither.

Apparently, the ending was originally supposed to be very different. Instead the film is very much about Fontaine's growing paranoia, of which the story does a great job of building up. It was also cool to see Grant in a much more sinister, yet still likable role as many of the films he was involved with I had seen up to this point were more comedic. Honestly, the ending disappoints me and the reason for not having the originally intended ending is so contrived I can't help but dislike it.

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Yeah, the ending is a big anti-climax, but up until then it was a solid and efficient romantic thriller. Fontaine has bucket-loads of screen presence and doesn't overplay her growing paranoia until the final act. Grant is suave and charming as ever - just the kind of man you would fall for even though you know he's actually a complete jerk. The supporting cast were good value, particularly the bumbling idiot Beaky, and I'm also going to start calling people Monkeyface in casual conversation...

Undoubtedly Hitchcock's films are worth watching for anyone interested in film and how it has evolved. Whilst most current directors have been influenced by Hitchcock or another who in turn was influenced by Hitchcock, this film just did't seem relevant today. It neither challenged nor thrilled. If you only have time to watch one Hitchcock film don't choose this one.

The ending is flawed (the studio overrode Hitch on this), but it is still good. Cary Grant is really sinister here.

Predictable but probably quite thrilling in it's day.

I've seen this many times. One of my favorite classics featuring my two favorite performers of that era (Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine).

Suspicion is good, but I didn't feel Cary Grant's character was made to seem as menacing as Fontaine perceived him to be. Still, it held my attention.

MONKEYFACE, MONKEYFACE, MONKEYFACE, MONKEYFACE, MONKEYFACE

Not Hitch's strongest, but he does a great job with the whole suspicion aspect. The leads are good, especially Cary Grant. A lesser actor in the role would probably have ruined the movie. The ending is definitely the result of the studio. As much as I love happy endings, this one doesn't work.

Great performances, but the ending did not satisfy me.

"Suspicion" is a strictly middlebrow early offering from Hitchcock. The first half is a dreary, dull and unnecessarily prolonged build-up, but during the second, the pace picks up and there are some truly suspenseful scenes. Fontaine is a convincing enough paranoiac, but the effect Grant's charm has on me is confined. The ending is disappointing -in the novel the film's based on, Lina willingly dies because she loves her husband. What we get is a cheap, Hollywood-enforced substitute. Pity.

Never got why this is such a divisive film in Hitchcock's canon. I personally found it to be effectively suspenseful, and the much-maligned ending, abrubt as it may be, is far more sinister than it may appear at first glance. On a sidenote, Joan Fontaine's Oscar should have been for Rebecca and not for this.