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How did it end?

posted 20 years ago by alan-morton
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The ending of the film is daft and brusque. The usual explanation is that it was manufactured in response to studio pressure, but I have no idea how exactly the film was meant to end. Does anybody know, or can anybody direct me to a website that would give me the information?

Recreating the end in a Hitchockian form, I'm guessing that Cary Grant definitely reveals his true colours but somehow takes a tumble over the cliff before he can carry out the dastardly murder. But I'd be glad to learn that the intended ending was less hackneyed than that.

[–] everpure_17 19 years ago

I know this by many of my fellow Hitchcock fans will be considered slanderous, but I prefer the actual end of the film better than what I heard Hitchcock had in mind. All during the film I was on edge completely convinced that Grant was a murderer and going to kill his wife, then that ohh so climatic end at the cliff!!! woooo!!!!Then in less then a minute Grant is completely exonerated. I mean it was the most surprising and unexpected ending I had ever seen. It is still my favorite movie ending.

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[–] Golden_Oldies 19 years ago

I found the ending so abrupt, come on the whole film is spent with her suspecting Johnny had done it and it was so obvious he had, no one would be that sly all the time. At the end I was totally like *Push her off the cliff!* but when he said he was in Liverpool or whatever it was so anti-climatic. It's such an easy end. But then I can imagine to myself how Johnny would push her off the cliff, and how much better it would have been.

*Formerly known as 11_Oceans_11*

[–] everpure_17 19 years ago

Yes but the title is "Suspicion" and of course it would be all about her suspecting Johnny. I still hold true in believing the ending as is to be better than what Hitchcock intended.

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