Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shadow of a Doubt (Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten; TIME...
...without a party, yet he spoke thoughts that are going through the minds of millions of his countrymen, here and in the homeland, who stand against oppression. But the disturbing thing was that Tresca's murder might have cast upon the New World the shadow of Old World political murder...
...Shadow of a Doubt (Universal) has the makings of a superb film: Alfred Hitchcock directed it; Thornton Wilder and Sally Benson helped write it; two of Hollywood's best young actors-Teresa Wright (Pride of the Yankees) and Joseph Gotten (The Magnificent Ambersons)-play in it. The result: a superb film...
This Hitchcock masterpiece has the same general theme as his Suspicion (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941)-the slow, terrible growth of fear of a loved one. But Shadow, from beginning to end, is a surpassingly better picture. Its horror is compounded by its setting: an exquisitely commonplace family in a familiar small California town. Mama (Patricia Collinge) is a fluttery hen whose family has become too much for her. The kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper...
Unlike Suspicion, Shadow hits few false notes, maintains suspense to the end. But good as Director Hitchcock and Actor Gotten are, the show is really Miss Wright...