![]() 21st - After meeting with Hitchcock and producer Jack H.13th - Thornton Wilder wires Hitchcock from New York to say he would like to write the screenplay for Shadow of a Doubt.11th - The Hitchcocks complete an initial outline treatment for Shadow of a Doubt.Skirball green-lights Shadow of a Doubt as Hitchcock's second film for Universal. 7th - After hearing Gordon McDonell's "Uncle Charlie" story outline, Jack H.5th - Gordon McDonell provides Hitchcock with a typewritten version of his " Uncle Charlie" story.McDonnell's original story ends with the uncle falling off a cliff after a failed attempt to silence his niece. Initially titled " Uncle Charlie", the story becomes Shadow of a Doubt. Over lunch at the Brown Derby, author Gordon McDonell pitches a story idea to Hitchcock about a "handsome, successful, debonair" man who visits his family in a small Californian town only for his young niece to suspect that he might be a serial killer. ![]() Incensed that the film implies that the Normandie fire was sabotage, the US Navy forces the scene to be cut. Ever the opportunist, Hitchcock dispatches a Universal newsreel unit to capture footage of the beached liner for use in Saboteur. ![]() ![]()
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