While all of those other films individually inspired numerous classics, Shadow of a Doubt’s legacy is less illustrious. The reason that Shadow of a Doubt hasn’t received the same amount of attention as Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window, or even Strangers on a Train and Rebecca has more to do with the films that it inspired rather than Shadow of a Doubt itself. This is particularly odd because Shadow of a Doubt’s influence exceeds its quality revered film critic Richard Schickel even speculated in Keepers, his 2015 book of criticism, that it could have been the first true example of film noir. ![]() Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller starring Joseph Cotten as the villainous Uncle Charlie and Teresa Wright as the heroine, young Charlie, flies relatively under the radar for a Hitchcock classic, particularly one that is so universally beloved. This week marks what would have been Alfred Hitchcock’s 117th birthday and as such it only makes sense to revisit what he considered the best of his own films: Shadow of a Doubt.
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