Thread: A Movie A Day: SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) Go away, I'm warning you. Go away or I'll kill you myself.

I am a student of ancient Greece and Rome. The story of Helen of Troy has always been one of my favorites. The Directors Cut, is bloodier and more true to the legend. But, let's face it, the movie is a pretty weak interpertation of that war. It actually lasted decades, and Petrocules was not the cousin of Achilles, but his lover. The sacking of Troy in the director's cut is more accurate.

Holy mackeral.

"SpellcheCker" It's an irony mine!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s installment of A Movie A Day. [For those now joining us, A Movie A Day is my attempt at filling in gaps in my film knowledge. My DVD collection is thousands strong, many of them films I haven’t seen yet, but picked up as I scoured used DVD stores. Each day I’ll pull a previously unseen film from my collection and discuss it here. Each movie will have some sort of connection to the one before it, be...

W/ the infamous Battering Ram/Foot scene there intact.

Kudos Quint for that. This really makes me relive movies I saw long ago and makes me want to watch them again. And on top of that I get reviews of movies I haven't seen, but always knew I should. It makes me seek them up and give them a watch. Also, I agree that the concept of DC's is a bit overrated, but there are true exceptions like Blade Runner and Kingdom of Heaven. The latter being a film I truly despised when I saw it in the...

"Shadow of a Doubt" isn't necessarily my favorite Hitchcock, but it's one of my favorites. I love it as sort of the inverse of what we think of as the traditional Hitchcock picture. Instead of a falsely accused man going on the run to exotic locations, we have a killer coming home to Anytown, USA. Plus, Joseph Cotten is one of my favorite unheralded actors.

with elab and Jim. The story isn't really about Uncle Charlie at all, but about little Charlie growing up and gaining some traumatic exposure to the big bad real world. Playing "is he or isn't he" with Uncle Charlie's character would significantly weaken the whole point of her story arc; and she's the main character.

.... is as common a sentence in the english language as: 'Take your mouth off my dick or else!'

And yes, Uncle Charlie monologue at the dinner table is chilling.