Instead of building a studio version of a typical American city, his main setting, he searched for a ready-made one. To shoot scenes supposed to take place in New Jersey, he traveled cross-country and shot them in New Jersey. 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. As 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, he has shown he has more than one trick up his sleeve. Hitchcock makes thriller under WPB order on new setsĪs a director of movies like The Lady Vanishes, Foreign Correspondent, Rebecca and Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock has already proved himself ingenious in creating suspense-filled melodramas. keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Edna May Wonacott, Foreign Correspondent (1940), Rebecca (1940), Saboteur (1942), Santa Rosa, California, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Teresa Wright, The Lady Vanishes (1938).
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