1 / 32

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt. “I wouldn’t say that Shadow of a Doubt is my favorite picture; if I’ve given that impression, it’s probably because I feel that here is something that our friends, the plausibles and logicians, cannot complain about.” Alfred Hitchcock to Truffaut .

mliss
Download Presentation

Shadow of a Doubt

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Shadow of a Doubt “I wouldn’t say that Shadow of a Doubt is my favorite picture; if I’ve given that impression, it’s probably because I feel that here is something that our friends, the plausibles and logicians, cannot complain about.” Alfred Hitchcock to Truffaut

  2. Hitchcock’s American Movie Thornton Wilder helped to write the script because Hitchcock had seen and admired Wilder’s Our Town. Teresa Wright was an understudy for the role of Emily. Our Town is a three act play that also centers around a small, idealistic, American town.

  3. Joseph Cotten Joseph Cottenplayed JedediahLeland in Citizen Kane in 1941. Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten

  4. Joseph Cotten Hitchcock used Cottenagain in 1949 to play the lead in Under Capricorn. Hume Cronyn, Herbie in Shadow of a Doubt, adapted this script to film.

  5. Joseph Cotten

  6. Teresa Wright ”[Teresa] shall not be required to pose for photographs in a bathing suit unless she is in water. Neither may she be photographed running on the beach with her hair flying in the wind. Nor may she pose in any of the following situations: in shorts; playing with a cocker spaniel; digging in a garden; whipping up a meal; attired in firecrackers and holding skyrockets for the fourth of July; looking insinuatingly at the turkey for Thanksgiving; wearing a bunny cap with long ears for Easter; twinkling on prop snow in a skiing outfit while a fan blows her scarf.” Guardian March 9, 2005 Life 1942

  7. Teresa Wright

  8. Hume Cronyn

  9. Doppelgangers and Doubles

  10. Uncle Charles and Charlie • Disinterested in money • Detail oriented • Charlie baits her uncle just as he does the detectives at the beginning. • They both claim to be capable of murder.

  11. Smoke and Shadow

  12. Music and Triggers

More Related