peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2010 01 17 ShadowOfADoubt

Shadow of a Doubt

Sun, Jan 17, 2010./noise/movies | Link

Sifting down the IMDB noir list, I found this, an early Hitchcock. It is a bit too slow and all-American for my tastes. Joseph Cotton is creepy, and not altogether unlike Jude Law. Teresa Wright is wide-eyed and luminous in this performance, the year after she won an Oscar (how young she must have been). The comedic relief was too robotic, and the climax a let-down.