A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Acting
Fontaine's trembling fragility vs. Grant's weaponized charisma
Cinematography
That glowing milk glass—Hitchcock's most luminous threat
Direction
Hitchcock shackled by studio, still delivers pure psychological torture
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant
John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth
Joan Fontaine
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
Cedric Hardwicke
General McLaidlaw
Nigel Bruce
Gordon Cochrane 'Beaky' Thwaite
May Whitty
Mrs. McLaidlaw
Isabel Jeans
Mrs. Newsham
Heather Angel
Ethel the Maid
Auriol Lee
Isobel Sedbusk
Reginald Sheffield
Reggie Wetherby
Leo G. Carroll
Captain George Melbeck
Billy Bevan
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Faith Brook
Alice Barham (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)
David Clyde
Trunk Man (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fontaine's Oscar win here made her and sister Olivia de Havilland the only siblings to win Lead Actress Oscars.
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