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crafty_packratToday the double-feature were two more movies release during WW2.
Shadow of a Doubt is a Hitchcock movie released in 1943, where Joseph Cotton plays an uncle visiting his sister and her family -- he's also the "Merry Widow Killer", who targets rich older women whose husbands have left him the money. The family was fun, especially the middle child Anne, bookish, fearless, and insistent on wearing flowers in her hair, and the father Joe whose hobby with the neighbor Herb (played by a young Hume Cronyn) is reading the crime and detective magazines and come up with inventive ways to murder each other. The romance subplot between Charlie and the detective tracking the murderer was completely unconvincing and unnecessary -- purely a case of "there's a man and a woman interacting, it must be a romance!" -- but the rest was extremely well-done.
Address Unknown is the story of two business partners -- art dealers -- whose friendship goes to pieces via correspondence once one of them moves back to Munich to further the business and gets sucked into the politics of Nazi Germany. This movie was released in 1944; it's amazing to look at as a window into how America saw the war at the time. The revenge plot has a terrific twist at the end that I did not see coming.
Shadow of a Doubt is a Hitchcock movie released in 1943, where Joseph Cotton plays an uncle visiting his sister and her family -- he's also the "Merry Widow Killer", who targets rich older women whose husbands have left him the money. The family was fun, especially the middle child Anne, bookish, fearless, and insistent on wearing flowers in her hair, and the father Joe whose hobby with the neighbor Herb (played by a young Hume Cronyn) is reading the crime and detective magazines and come up with inventive ways to murder each other. The romance subplot between Charlie and the detective tracking the murderer was completely unconvincing and unnecessary -- purely a case of "there's a man and a woman interacting, it must be a romance!" -- but the rest was extremely well-done.
Address Unknown is the story of two business partners -- art dealers -- whose friendship goes to pieces via correspondence once one of them moves back to Munich to further the business and gets sucked into the politics of Nazi Germany. This movie was released in 1944; it's amazing to look at as a window into how America saw the war at the time. The revenge plot has a terrific twist at the end that I did not see coming.
