Shadow of a Doubt
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Henry Travers, Joseph Cotton, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Teresa Wright Director: Alfred Hitchcock Brand: NBC Universal Producer: Jack H. Skirball Writer: Thornton Wilder Writer: Alma Reville Writer: Sally Benson Writer: Gordon McDonell DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed) Format: Black & White, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 108 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Universal Studios |
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Movie Reviews of Shadow of a Doubt
Movie Review: "Shadow of a Doubt" Weak Hitchcock
Summary: 2 Stars
Alfred Hitchcock said that this was his favorite among his films but, after having seen it for the third or fourth time, I still cannot see why. Hitchcock often stated in interviews that his greatest enjoyment in making films was the working out of the details beforehand and that he often wished he didn't have to actually make the picture. This film and some of his others, particularly in the writing and acting departments, clearly demonstrate that.
Joseph Cotten's performance as "Uncle Charlie" is wooden and even the dinner conversation about the fat widows "eating the money and drinking the money" of their dead husbands lacks conviction. Patricia Collinge, superb in "The Little Foxes" of 1941, is merely annoying here given the inane lines she is burdened with. Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn "humorously" and endlessly discussing different types of murder is silly. Worst of all are the fatal performances of the two child actors portraying Teresa Wright's younger sister and brother who manage to drag down every scene they appear in. All these are things Mr. Hitchcock should not have allowed to get away from him, especially when one considers the excellence of earlier pictures such as "Rebecca" and "Foreign Correspondent".
The scenes involving the missing newspaper page, Teresa Wright's race to get to the library before it closes and her close call with asphyxiation, all intended to generate great suspense, tend to fall flat. This picture betrays the same weaknesses as "Saboteur", made the year before for the same studio. The same weaknesses in acting and writing also show up, but to a lesser extent, in "Spellbound", "Rope", "I Confess" and "Stage Fright" the last of which is saved only by the droll performance of Alastair Sim.
Alfred Hitchcock really comes into his own in the early 1950's beginning with "Strangers on a Train" (1951) and ending with "The Birds" (1961) -- films which comprise a body of work that has deservedly won praise from movie-lovers throughout the world.