Suspicion (1941) - Alfred Hitchcock 
In his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread!
Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually, Fontaine comes to the conclusion that Grant intends to do away with her in order to collect her inheritance...a suspicion confirmed when Grant's likeable business partner Nigel Bruce dies under mysterious circumstances. To his dying day, Hitchcock insisted that he wanted to retain the novelist Francis Iles' original ending, but that the RKO executives intervened. Fontaine won an Academy Award for her work, which is richly deserved as she puts in a fantastic performance here.
Whilst not a Noir at heart, I could kind of ever-so-slightly see why this was included in TSPDT’s Top 250 Quintessential Noir films although you have to really stretch your imagination and possibly even ply yourself with plenty of whisky before-hand to accept this.
Overall it’s a film I enjoyed and also a film that likes to keep you guessing; or more accurately a film that tries to put across an idea to its audience but which turns out not to be quite as you’ve been led to believe. As it’s Hitchcock, it kind of goes without saying that it is recommended viewing, however it’s just a shame the ending as demanded by the studio spoils things a little.