shadow of a doubt

November 6 movie: Shadow of a Doubt. I had never seen this all the way through before, and I'm really glad I did. I think it's one of Hitchcock's best movies. Casting Joseph Cotten as the villain was brilliant. He has an air of decency about him that makes it even more chilling when he's revealed as a killer. I remember reading that Hitchcock tried to do the same thing with Suspicion but the studio interceded. They said that movie audiences wouldn't accept Cary Grant as a villain so Hitchcock had to rewrite the ending and make Grant innocent. Fie on them, I say.