![]() “All I’m waiting for now is a miracle,” she tells her kindly but weak father Joe (Henry Travers). Charlie senses that she and her mother are trapped. She finds family life tedious and is particularly concerned with that life’s effect on her mother Emma, who seems to spend her days going from one dispiriting household task to another. A recent high-school graduate who still lives with her family in an old-fashioned home in Santa Rosa, California, Charlie is restless. Indeed, the film is primarily experienced through one of those characters, Young Charlie (Teresa Wright). It is domesticity nonetheless, however, and the picture features sympathetic and complex female characters. Since Shadow is a Hitchcock film the domesticity it explores is dark. And many plot points are worked out at the dinner table. ![]() Viewers get to know its hallways, doorways, and rooms. The house in which most of the action is set is almost a character in the story. Released in 1943, Shadow of a Doubt has long been one of my favorite Hitchcock films in large part because it is domestic. So for this essay I turn to Hitchcock’s most domestic motion picture-some might say his ONLY domestic motion picture- Shadow of a Doubt. The characters have little time for cooking and eating. ![]() Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, and Patricia Collinge in "Shadow of a Doubt"Īs a food writer I often find it difficult to write about films, particularly films like those of Hitchcock, in which action and suspense are key.
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