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7 They know now, beyond the shadow of a doubt, That everything you gave me is firsthand from you, 8 For the message you gave me, I gave them And they took it, and were convinced That I came from you. “The film where Hitchcock first discovered America. They were yours in the first place Then you gave them to me, And they have now done what you said. “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.” Thats the nature of true English idioms, my friends you just have to learn their meaning so that you can use them without running the risk of using them.

suspect, Charlie knows this is false, that the real murderer is her uncle. “Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece.” Alfred Hitchcocks 1943 film, Shadow of a Doubt, concerns a serial mur. With support from the Robert Jolin Osborne Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. 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.