Reviews of this picture always mention the director considered it his favorite, and it earns consistent high praise. Learn something.”Īlfred Hitchcock’s 1943 suspenser was Oscar-nominated for Best Story (Gordon McDonnell), and the script was a three-way job from Our Town‘s Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson ( Meet Me in St.Louis) and Alma Reville, Hitch’s wife and collaborator.
What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you’d find swine? The world’s a hell. It’s not bad news from some Pacific island or Italian hill that turns her placid hometown worldview into a swirl of confusion and pain, but the slow-burn reveal of discovery that her beloved and idealized ‘Uncle Charley’ (Joseph Cotten), on a surprise visit home from his apparently successful business deals, is actually fleeing detectives, on his trail for a series of strangulation homicides of well-off widows. SHADOW OF A DOUBT casts a dark cloud of fear and disillusion over sweet, small town American gal ‘Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton’ (Teresa Wright) in the middle of WW2.
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