Suspicion (1941)

◄ Suspicion (1941)

Audio/visual unsynchronised

The barrister's lips and speech are out of sync when reading Lina's father's will.
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Character error

At :15 into the film, Cary Grant's character, whose name has been seen in numerous photos identified as "Johnnie Aysgarth" (and is so-named in the closing credits), a telegram to Joan Fontaine's character is signed, "Johnny."
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Continuity

After returning from their honeymoon, Johnnie pours tea for Lina. He picks up the teapot, then lifts it again in the cutaway shot.
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When Lina looks at Isobel's book while Johnnie is on the telephone, there is a large tear in the book jacket above Isobel's photo. In the next scene, when Lina takes the book on her visit to Isobel, the book jacket is undamaged.
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Alfred Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about forty minutes in, posting a letter in the village. However, when the shot changes, he has suddenly disappeared from beside the pillar-box.
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In the dinner scene at her parent's house after Lina's walk with Johnny, the glasses of water in front of her parents are both full, but during the course of their conversation with Lina, neither of them take a drink of water. When Lina leaves to answer the phone, but glasses are empty.
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According to the invitation shown on screen, the hunt ball is on March 7, but the telegram that persuades Lina to attend the ball is dated March 8.
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When Johnnie and Lina are walking around instead of going to church, Lina's collar wavers in the wind, but in close up shots, the right side of her collar is completely turned up.
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When Lina is having lunch with her parents, she is sitting on the long side of the table between them. When she returns from the phone, her seat is moved to be right beside her father's.
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When Johnnie is talking to General McLaidlaw, at the Hunt Ball, General McLaidlaw has his hands by his side during the first close-up, then he is stroking his mustache in the subsequent long shot.
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When Inspector Hodgson is speaking to Lina, at first she is holding her hands together in front of her. In the next shot, her right hand is by her side and her left hand is behind her.
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The position of Lina's head varies between shots while she is talking to Johnnie after he arrives home from London.
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When the Aysgarths are eating at Isobel's house, the placement of Johnnie's head varies between shots.
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Errors in geography

The "British" light switches in the sets are unmistakably American. They even operate in the American way - up for on, down for off - the opposite of real British switches.
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Revealing mistakes

Alfred Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about forty minutes in, posting a letter in the village. Note the background in this shot and a shot just a few seconds earlier with the car driving by and a man walking while smoking. They are both exactly the same background shot with same car, people, with one being enlarged. It could be the film was so expensive, the re-use of background shots was needed.
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