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Article: There's Just One Hitch;On PBS' `American Playhouse,' a New `Suspicion'
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- The Washington Post
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- April 20, 1988
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As an idea, it ranks somewhere between lamebrained and
harebrained: a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion," with two
dull actors in the lead roles. Perhaps only public television could
come up with a thudder like that, and it has; "Suspicion" airs
tonight at 9 on Channel 26.
Offered as part of the dubiously precious "American Playhouse"
series, the remake was directed by Andrew Grieve and mimics closely
the 1941 Hitchcock original, the story of a shy, plain bookworm who
marries a worldly bon vivant and then worries she may not be vivant
herself much longer. She thinks he wants to murder her.
Not one of Hitchcock's better films, the romantic thriller
overcame a flawed premise, ...