It’s hard to believe that just one year after he made the earnest, flag-waving ode to Americana that was Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock would follow it up with Shadow of a Doubt, a creepy paranoia-inducing thriller about an uncle who visits his sister’s family from out of town. Sweet nature sixteen year old Charlie loves her uncle who has the same ...
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Saboteur [1942]
There are a number of Hitchcock films that follow a format whereby a case of mistaken identity forces a reluctant hero on a cross country search for justice. It’s a good template and one of my favourite set ups for a Hitchcock film. He employs it to good use in The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much and ...
Read More »The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog [1927]
A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
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