Saugatuck Red Barn Theatre Movie Night: Suspicion

Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Red Barn Theatre

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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The Red Barn Theater’s film attraction for November 29 is ‘Suspicion,’ Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 film that features Cary Grant as an irresistible cad, and the young Joan Fontaine, who finally learns she must resist him or face a grisly death. Hitchcock’s script, written mostly by his wife, Alma Reville, turns the audience every way but loose, as we succumb to subtle circumstantial evidence that Johnny (Grant) is a cold-hearted killer and that Lina (Ms. Fontaine) is in extreme danger.

In a contemporary review in the New York Times, Bosley Crowther lays it all out: “Mr. Hitchcock is compelled to construct his attack around a straight psychological progression; a shy deeply sensitive English girl marries a charming rakehell in maiden innocence, and then, through accumulated evidence, begins to suspect him of dark and foul deeds, of murdering two dear people, and finally of having designs upon herself.”

The great English character actors Nigel Bruce, Sir Cedrick Hardwick, Dame May Whitty, and Leo G. Carrol turn in fine atmospheric performances. Be sure to look for Hitchcock himself in his usual cameo performance. Hint: check the mail box.

Join host John Hardy at 7 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn from CNJ Popcorn Co. and $1 concessions. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net

Location Details

Red Barn Theatre
63RD & Blue Star Hwy.
Saugatuck Mi 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-5300