SHADOW OF A DOUBT directed by Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1943)
After recently re-watching The Third Man, I was reminded of another of my favourite movies starring Joseph Cotten.
Shadow Of A Doubt is one of Hitchcock’s most underrated thrillers and, by all accounts his own personal favourite.
Watching it now shows how it has a number of parallels with David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
In both films a safe, boring, suburban routine is disrupted by sinister forces from outside. In each, the law-abiding ‘ordinary’ citizens cannot comprehend why there should be such evil in the world. Continue reading
In the book version of Graham Greene’s masterly The Third Man, he wrote a romantic ending for Anna Schmidt and Holly Martins.
