Capital Celluloid 2022 — Day 25: Tue Jan 25

Shadow of A Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 2.30pm


This film, part of the Francois Truffaut Big Screen Classics strand at BFI Southbank, is alose screened on January 22nd. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Alfred Hitchcock’s first indisputable masterpiece (1943). Joseph Cotten is Uncle Charlie, aka the Merry Widow Murderer, who returns to his hometown to visit his niece and namesake, played by Teresa Wright. Hitchcock’s discovery of darkness within the heart of small-town America remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death. Thornton Wilder collaborated on the script; it’s Our Town turned inside out.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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