![]() At its core, Shadow of a Doubt is a woman-in-peril film, a genre that has since proven problematic for a multitude of reasons. ![]() While all of those other films individually inspired numerous classics, Shadow of a Doubt’s legacy is less illustrious. The reason that Shadow of a Doubt hasn’t received the same amount of attention as Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window, or even Strangers on a Train and Rebecca has more to do with the films that it inspired rather than Shadow of a Doubt itself. This is particularly odd because Shadow of a Doubt’s influence exceeds its quality revered film critic Richard Schickel even speculated in Keepers, his 2015 book of criticism, that it could have been the first true example of film noir. ![]() Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller starring Joseph Cotten as the villainous Uncle Charlie and Teresa Wright as the heroine, young Charlie, flies relatively under the radar for a Hitchcock classic, particularly one that is so universally beloved. ![]() This week marks what would have been Alfred Hitchcock’s 117th birthday and as such it only makes sense to revisit what he considered the best of his own films: Shadow of a Doubt. ![]()
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