![]() Since there isn’t any doubt to begin with, the drama is in the girl’s reaction, and the family’s reaction to Uncle Charlie. ![]() “Ten minutes into the original, and there’s no question that Uncle Charlie is the killer. Screenwriter John Gay ( Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)) was keen to tell the Los Angeles Times about the odd tweak that he made to Gordon McDonell’s initial outline, most notably with the opening murder of wealthy widow Terese Mathewson (played by Tippi Hedren no less): SHADOW OF A DOUBT sits firmly in the camp of the former, having even gone to the trouble of filming in the exact same town (Santa Rosa, California) as Hitch’s 1943 classic. The ‘90s saw a bounty of Hitchcock remakes designed for the small screen from traditional variants like Jeff Bleckner’s Rear Window (1998), to bolder reimagining’s like Lifepod (1993) – Ron Silver’s trippy sci-fi take on Lifeboat (1944). Dave sees the faint silhouette of a rotund British director in this ’90s potboiler, as a classic from The Master of Suspense is remade for network TV.
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