Suspicion
Lina is a rich but unmarried woman, lives with her parents. She accidentally meets a "play-boy", John Aysgarth, who falls in love with Lina and achieves to secretly marry her some time later without knowledge from her parents.However, John results not to be the way Lina had imagined: he is lazy, likes betting on races and the most important, he's a liar. A friend of him, Beaky Thwaite, will allow Lina to understand this reality, and so she will discover some time later that John has been fired from his job, because of stealing 2.000$, and that he's actually trying to get the money in order to avoid being arrested.
John's strange attitude, combined with some catastrophic casualties (including "Vickie's" accidental death) will make Lina suspect of him planning to kill her, so that he would receive her life insurance's fee; that money would enable him to pay his debts.
Although, John will finally result to be innocent, in spite of all the accusatory circumstances existing against him.
'Suspicion' was designed by Hitchcock to be full of argumental traps: the goal was to fool the viewer in the same way he sees how Lina is being fooled by what's happening. This fact is very important in order to observe the point of view's setting: the story is told continuously from Lina's own point of view, so that we finally come to share her feelings, blaming John for a yet uncommited murder.
'Suspicion' was in principle designed by Hitchcock to make John Aysgarth kill his wife, but as would happen later with 'The Wrong Man', the producer didn't allow Hitchcock to implement a "sad" end. Although, the possibility to use of one or another end isn't relevant, because the story's subject matter would be exactly the same. Formally, both ends would be perfectly coherent with the movie's main argument.
The most important element in this movie is once again suspense: the doubt on John Aysgarth being or not being a murderer shows to certain extent some similarity to what we would see some years later in 'Rear Window', with the same doubt applied on Lars Thorwald, a doubt which lasts from the film's beginning until the end. In this way, the film should be regarded as "manipulatory", considering the influence of Lina's thoughts upon the viewer; Hitchcock achieved this effect by boosting John's strange behaviour image as well as establishing a sort of complicity between Lina's way of thinking and the viewer.
