![]() Along the way he ropes in innocent Patricia and the two fall in love across a series of near misses. The movie takes our hero cross country from Glendale, California to New York City. Saboteur plays like exactly what it is: one half The Thirty Nine Steps and one half rough draft for North By Northwest.Īirplane factory worker Barry gets blamed for an act of sabotage and has to go on the run to clear his name and find the real saboteur, a man named Fry whom no one believes really exists. We follow this up with the endlessly enjoyable confection Saboteur, made one year earlier. Hitchcock worked with famed playwright Thornton Wilder, biographer of small town Americana, and Hitchcock’s own wife Alma Reville (who contributed to countless Hitchcock movies), to craft a movie where the horror, suspense, and tension comes almost completely out of a battle of wills between two characters who both adore and fear the other.Īn unnerving slice of terror served up as a slice of Americana apple pie, Shadow of a Doubt also has one of Hitchcock’s greatest ever shots. And it is one of this Programmer’s absolute top Hitchcocks as well. This was one of Hitchcock’s own personal favorites of all the movies he ever directed. This creates irony and suspense-rich scenes from minute one.Īs niece Charlie realizes that Uncle Charlie is a murderer just hiding out with the family, Uncle Charlie realizes that niece Charlie is becoming a problem and might blow his cover. In other words, tell the audience everything so they know more than the other characters. This reveal demonstrates Hitchcock’s firm belief in suspense over surprise. It’s funny to remember that even though many critics and fans consider Hitchcock’s 1950’s to early 1960’s run to be the pinnacle of his artistry, he still produced several of his absolute greatest movies in the 1940’s.Įxhibit A is 1943’s Shadow of a Doubt starring Teresa Wright as a doting niece who idolizes her visiting Uncle Charlie (a never better and profoundly unsettling Joseph Cotten) who just may be a serial killer of widowed wealthy women.Īctually, he is definitely a murderer of widowed wealthy women, something we learn in the very first few minutes of the picture. ![]()
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