![]() ![]() Strangers on a Train, and Psycho psychosexual predicaments in Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell. What game is Johnnie Aysgarth playing? How honest has he ever been, or has he only been maligned by others? It’s hard to tell, and this movie was sheer adrenaline rush as we wonder and believe, suffer and suspect, along with the hapless Lina, again and again.įontaine won an Oscar for this role - apparently the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film ever. The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock - July 2015. Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Playing hard to get, extravagance he can’t afford, horse-trading, selling off family heritage, getting an insurance against his wife’s death, hobnobbing with murder novelists and homicide specialists, starting risky business ventures, lavishing gifts on housemaids, watching as his sick friend drinks himself to more sickness…. But sooner or later, he’ll run out of tricks. It’s a habit with him to keep switching between a heartless fool and a charming repenter. ![]() ![]() Cary Grant is at his smarmiest best, as the highly unreliable husband to heiress and wallflower Lina (played by Joan Fontaine). ![]()
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