Goodness can be terrifying, too, and its collusion with evil is part of the movie’s enduring fascination.” “The movie is the most “psychological” of Hitchcock’s films, and the one with the clearest and most explicit exposition of evil, yet the director’s attitude is profoundly ambivalent. Hitchcock's discovery of darkness within the heart of small-town America remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death.” “HITCHCOCK'S FIRST INDISPUTABLE MASTERPIECE. But when he starts whistling “The Merry Widow Waltz”… Hitchcock’s personal favorite, this is perhaps his ultimate evocation of evil nestling among the pleasantly mundane, with authentic Americana provided by Thornton Wilder ( Our Town) and Sally Benson ( Meet Me in St. (1943) As wealthy widows keep disappearing, lovable Joseph Cotten visits niece Theresa Wright in her very average middle American town. – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times SHADOW OF A DOUBT “That old master of screen melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock, and Writer John Steinbeck have combined their distinctive talents in a tremendously provocative film.” ![]() Original screenplay by John Steinbeck, with Hitchcock’s most challenging cameo. ![]() Music-less tour-de-force for Hitchcock’s camera, never moving outside the boat. – plus U-boat survivor Walter Slezak – find themselves in the eponymous vessel. (1944) Grand Hotel in miniature, as after a sinking at sea, columnist Tallulah Bankhead, hunky seaman John Hodiak, right-wing mogul Henry Hull, Brooklyn mug William Bendix, et al.
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