“The film where Hitchcock first discovered America. Starring Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey Shadow of a Doubt is almost certainly Hitchcocks best picture of the 1940s. Shadow of a Doubt (1943), with a su- perb performance from Joseph Cotten as a compulsive murderer of wealthy wid- ows, was followed by Lifeboat (1944), a. “Hitchcock is perverse enough to suggest that the murderer’s bitter clarity is in greater touch with life than is the feeble virtue of the town’s residents.” “Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece.” His cremated ashes were returned to his native Petersburg for. With support from the Robert Jolin Osborne Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. Joseph Cheshire Cotten died of pneumonia in his Los Angeles condominium on 6 February 1994. LOUIS), and Hitchcock’s wife (and closest collaborator) Alma Reville. Starring Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Henry Travers, Macdonald Carey, Patricia CollingeĪs wealthy widows keep disappearing, victims of the so-called “Merry Widow Murderer,” Joseph Cotten's lovable Uncle Charlie visits niece Teresa Wright in her average American town – a cozy family scene, until he’s heard whistling “The Merry Widow Waltz.” Often claimed as Hitchcock’s own favorite, this is perhaps his ultimate evocation of evil nesting among the mundane (and, along with PSYCHO, only one of two Hitchcocks with a villain as central character), with authentic Americana provided by screenwriters Thornton Wilder (OUR TOWN), Sally Benson (MEET ME IN ST.
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