:01:28
He said he wanted
a typical American family.
:01:31
I told him we weren't
a typical American family.
:01:34
(Woman)
This was my father's favourite movie,
:01:37
because he loved the thought
of bringing menace into a small town.
:01:42
(Girl) I was in the dumps.
:01:44
Then Uncle Charlie came
and everything changed.
:01:49
Look at us. For once,
we're all happy at the same time.
:02:02
(Woman) I remember my father
and Thornton Wilder and my mother
:02:05
working together on the movie.
:02:08
The original idea was brought to him
by Gordon McDonell,
:02:12
who was married
to Margaret McDonell,
:02:15
who worked at Selznick.
:02:18
(Man) Shadow of a Doubt
was really the first American Hitchcock.
:02:24
It was set in America,
:02:26
as opposed to Suspicion or Rebecca .
:02:30
Thornton Wilder's input,
since he was American,
:02:33
since it was about a small town,
:02:36
since Thornton Wilder wrote the great
small-townAmerican play, Our Town ,
:02:39
that contributes to
Hitchcock's fondness of it.
:02:42
On top of which, Thornton Wilder
did not bring an ego to the project.
:02:46
He was very open, very easy
to work with and very respectful.
:02:49
This is something Hitch hadn't gotten
from American artists before,
:02:55
and I think it meant a lot to him.
:02:58
(O'Connell) After Thornton Wilder
left to join the army,