Shadow of a Doubt is an excellent, enthralling thriller from Alfred Hitchcock, who regarded it as his personal favorite film partly due to the fact he fostered a family-like atmosphere during shooting. Hitchcock, so adulatory of Wilder’s play, brought in Wilder to co-write the screenplay to Shadow of a Doubt – which itself is set in small town Santa Rosa, California (Santa Rosa, which is located an hour’s drive north of San Francisco, is no longer a small town and would not be the last time the Master of Suspense visited Northern California). Shadow of a Doubt, which stars Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten in the lead roles, would be his one wartime masterpiece and was inspired by Thornton Wilder’s stage play Our Town – adapted beautifully for film in 1940 and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Alfred Hitchcock had made his first American film three years ago with Rebecca and had already established himself as a brilliant artist and an entertainer with a murderous sense of humor.
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