losaify.blogg.se - Shadow of a doubt 1995

To quote Pat Hitchcock, “This was my father’s favorite movie because he loved the idea of bringing menace into a small town.” Typical small town America gets infused with psychosis, murder, and mayhem.Three Reasons for this Movie to be Hitch’s Favorite:

Well, maybe this movie is classic Hitch after all! Ok, it’s the one with a girl who thinks someone she loves is going to murder her–nope, that’s pretty themey too. Ok, it’s the one that takes places in rural California–nope, Psycho.

It’s the one with an attempted murder on a train–wait, that happens in other Hitch movies (actually, trains are kind of a theme with him…).

Wait, who is Alma Reville? If you don’t know, you just lost tons of hipster Hitch street cred. Louis, which was based on her childhood), and Alma Reville. But the script felt the influence of Wilder (you know, the guy who wrote Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth), Sally Benson (who wrote Meet Me In St. Story credit is given to Gordon McDonnell, a Hollywood staple.

It’s the one with the screenplay by Thorton Wilder.

Joseph Cotton is spot on charming, disarming, and deadly scary as the out of town uncle with a past that nobody really wants to know, least of all his angsty teenage namesake niece, Young Charlie, played to perfection by Theresa Wright.

Ways for Hipsters to Remember this Movie:Īnother man who murders women and also gives them identity issues. Screenplay by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. Bernard Herrmann did not compose the score, and Edith Head did not design the costumes. It has neither the greyscale heavy contrast gore-non-gore of Psycho nor the iconic camera trickery of Vertigo.