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(Read Alfred Hitchcock’s 1965 Britannica essay on film production.) Britannica Quiz Pop Culture Quiz Young Charlie (played by Teresa Wright) is bored with her small town. The result is an exciting and highly realistic film, whose new set cost, mainly for studio replicas, was well under the imposed limit. Shadow of a Doubt, American thriller film, released in 1943, that Alfred Hitchcock reportedly ranked as his personal favourite of the movies he directed.

13,000), Hitchcock with his cast and crew took over the entire city for four weeks, converted it into a complete motion-picture studio.

Instead of building a studio version of a typical American city, his main setting, he searched for a ready-made one. Instead of elaborate sets he used the real thing. Accustomed to spending more than $100,000 on sets alone for one picture, Hitchcock made Shadow Of A Doubt by reverting to the "location shooting" of early movie days. LIFE magazine ran an extensive feature on the film's production in their January 1943 edition:Īs a director of one of the first movies to be produced under the Government restriction placing a $5,000 ceiling on new materials used for sets, has shown he has more than one trick up his sleeve. Writer Thornton Wilder accompanied Hitchcock on a trip to the town in June 1942 so that they could incorporate local landmarks and buildings into the screenplay. Shadow of a Doubt was mostly filmed on location in Santa Rosa, California, during August 1942.