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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Name: Shadow of a Doubt
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: drama film, film noir, action film
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 7.7

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Joseph A. Valentine · Cut by Milton Carruth · Music by Dimitri Tiomkin · Ratio Academy ratio · 108 min

How it was made

The story originated from a nine-page treatment, based partly on real-life serial killer Earle Nelson, which Hitchcock assigned specifically to playwright Thornton Wilder because he admired Wilder's Our Town.
Wartime War Production Board restrictions capped set construction at $5,000, pushing the production to shoot the opening Newark scenes on real locations rather than build sets.
Cinematographer Joseph Valentine lit four city blocks for night exteriors using two generator sets and ten 150-ampere arc spotlights, a combined 3,000 amperes of output, and still found the ivy-covered library building absorbed nearly all the light thrown at it.
The crew finished their last night shoot only hours before a Pacific Coast wartime blackout order took effect.
Composer Dimitri Tiomkin, in his first collaboration with Hitchcock, wove a distorted version of Franz Lehár's Merry Widow Waltz through the score as a recurring motif for Uncle Charlie.

Behind the scenes

The Making of Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt' — Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Documentaries · 35 min
10. Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window — MIT OpenCourseWare · 54 min

Elsewhere

Shadow of a Doubt — trailer
All Alfred Hitchcock films

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
Elstree Calling — 1930
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939

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