And the mental anguish he can thereby create, apparently in the minds of his characters but actually in the psyche of you, is of championship proportions and-being hokum, anyhow- a sheer delight.But when Mr. Hitchcock folds suggestions very casually into the furrows of his film, the way he can make a torn newspaper or the sharpened inflection of a person's voice send ticklish roots down to the subsoil of a customer's anxiety, is a wondrous, invariable accomplishment. And now he is bringing in another bumper crop of blue-ribbon shivers and chills in Jack Skirball's diverse production of "Shadow of a Doubt," which came to the Rivoli last night.Yes, the way Mr. He did it quite nicely in "Rebecca" and again in "Suspicion" about a year ago. The cynical, film-noirish, war-time film was shot on location in the small, story-book town of Santa Rosa, California - a representative place of sacred, wholesome, middle-American values where dark corruption is hidden within a family.You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) has often been seen as director/producer Alfred Hitchcock's best American film (and second film with Universal Studios) - and it was purportedly his own personal favorite. Summary: A young woman discovers her visiting uncle may not be the man he seems to be.
He was recognized for his twist endings and signature themes of innocent men on the run.
He became known as "The Master of Suspense" for the taut thrillers and stories of suspense that he directed from the 1940s to the 1960s. He left England for Hollywood in 1939, where his first American film Rebecca (1940) won an Academy Award for Best Picture. For each month-long program, we’ll screen five films organized by one of the following themes: directors, actors, genres, and eras/movements.Įssential tickets are $9 for Adults, $8 for Students/Seniors and Members get in Free!Įnglish film-maker/director Alfred Hitchcock directed more than 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades. This new quarterly series showcases the “essential” films everyone should see on the big screen.
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