... Cotten, Teresa Wright, Patricia Collinge, MacDonald Carey, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford "... if you ripped the front off houses..." Shot mostly on location in the small Northern California town of Santa Rosa in the Summer of 1942, Shadow of a Doubt is Hitchcock's mischievious attempt to construct a superficially simple, morally ambiguous narrative around a complex web of genres, narrative templates ... -standing, detached, episodic set-piece spectacle of the North by Northwest-like Saboteur (1942) that immediately preceded it. By enlisting Thornton Wilder, the playwright of th...

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Thornton Wilder creates a very interesting and different approach in his play "Our Town". He makes use of a stage manager and very little setting by effectively drawing the initial attention of his audience. He also uses ... plot to appeal to a wide variety of readers by providing scenes and occasions which the majority of people experience. Wilder's unusual and original idea of presenting a play with a plain and simple plot becomes a fascinating story with a valuable lesson. He informs the audience of the families and the family relations to begin with ... them with their own. Furthermore, ...

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