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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Wisteria Trees (adapted by Joshua Logan from Chekhov's Cherry Orchard), with Helen Hayes, Joseph Cotten...
Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt is the second feature. This revival stars Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright as uncle and niece in a tense family situation involving murders, detectives, and telepathy. For a Hitchcock, this film moves along very slowly, though it has some fine moments. Patricia Collinge, the world's most insipid mother, lives through the picture. Otherwise, this is a highly satisfactory co-feature...
...will, by the way, was hidden in a fireplace by the old actor's pet crow. This is obviously a corny gimmick, and Cotten applies equally corny detective logic to find...
Meeting a pretty girl (Leslie Caron) by accident, Cotten learns that she loves the millionaire's only living relative, who needs the inheritance for some revolutionary movement in France. While captivating Caron persuades the dying old man to write another will, her cohort Cotten deals with the evil contenders for the money--the housekeeper (Barbara Stanwyck), and a sinister side-whiskered butler. Between drinking quantities of liquor (fourteen glasses in all) and trying to break through Stanwyck's overbearing hostility, Cotten manages to appear a humanitarian martyr...
Although the movie's plot is obviously old and painfully slow-moving, at least the dialogue is often witty. The only excitement occurs when Cotten engages in a tumble-downstairs fight over the will with the grisly butler...