'Shadow of a Doubt'

Things are seldom what they seem....

So the wonderful line* goes.

But then, how are we to manage?

We do our best with approximations and half-truths, I suppose.

Above and below, the best movie I've seen so far this year — and I've been on a tear lately, watching one every evening for the past several weeks.

Alfred Hitchcock directed; Thornton Wilder wrote it; Dimitri Tomkin scored it; Joseph Cotten (the most underrecognized actor in Hollywood history) and Teresa Wright starred.

They don't make 'em like this anymore.

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