Serve in the Psychological Warfare Division of the Army. Story, and Wilder had not finished the screenplay when he enlisted to

He and the director took their time developing the inticate With a notebook, writing bits and pieces of the screenplay when heĬould. AfterĬonsulting briefly with Hitchcock, Wilder wandered about Hollywood Perfect scenarist to bring the right kind of ambiance andĬharacterization to the film's small, close-knit Santa Rosa.

The director got Thornton Wilder to write the screenplay,Īssuming that the playwright who created 'Our Town' would be the 'Hitchcock took his time in making SHADOW OF A DOUBT, and the care His family's love - a tension which fuels the chillingĬat-and-mouse game between Cotten and Wright that provides the film's Through Cotten's devious charade as a gentle, kind man deserving of Just what kind of a man Cotten really is, but providing tension The film's construction isĪdroit and perfectly calculated, letting the viewer know early on Superb performance, of a subtle killer who cannot escape his dark Uniformly goodįrom The Movie Guide: 'This is Hitchcock's most penetratingĪnalysis of a murderer - a masterful profile, aided by Cotten's Wife), from an original story by Gordon McDonnell. (Exteriors wereįilmed in Santa Rosa, California, which is the same part of theĬountry Hitchcock returned to for VERTIGOīy Thornton Wilder, with Sally Benson and Alma Reville (Hitchcock's This thriller, the director's personal favorite of all his films,īeautifully captures the small town WWII atmosphere. (Wright) suspects her uncle (Cotten) of having a deep, dark secret. Gripping suspense film in the grand Hitchcock tradition. Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates, Irving Bacon, Clarence Muse, Janet Shaw, Estelle Jewell W/Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers,

Shadow of a doubt 1943 nominations