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06/24/06
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 28 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Synopsis: A favorite of Alfred Hitchcock himself, with an exceptional script by the playwright Thornton Wilder, SHADOW OF A DOUBT anticipates such family menace dramas as CAPE FEAR. Young Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) lies on her bed in Santa Rosa, California, bored with her small-town life and... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn
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06/10/08
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The collaboration between Thornton Wilder and Hitchcock proves to be extremely fertile for it allows both American writer and British director to dissect small-town life way beyond the former's Our Town.
12/03/06
Like Lynch's fever-dream of transcendental perversity Blue Velvet, Shadow of a Doubt is about awakening, the simultaneous darkening and enlarging of the world.
02/17/06
Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt is one of his grimmest and most impressive movies.
01/31/05
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You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood.
05/20/03
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SHADOW OF A DOUBT is without a doubt a Hitchcock Noir CLASSIC!!!
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