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Archibald Gordon Macdonell (3 November 1895 – 16 January 1941) was a Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster, whose most famous work is the gently satirical novel England, Their England (1933). Early life and education.
Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell.
Oct 17, 2023 · SHADOW OF A DOUBT began as a six-page story, "Uncle Charlie," by Gordon McDonell, whose wife headed David O. Selznick’s story department. The treatment was sketchy, but Hitchcock loved the premise, which he described as “bringing menace into a small town.”
Gordon McDonell was born on 30 October 1905 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Shadow of a Doubt (1943), They Won't Believe Me (1947) and Step Down to Terror (1958). He died on 16 December 1995 in Green Valley, Arizona, USA.
- Writer
- October 30, 1905
- Gordon McDonell
- December 16, 1995
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May 5, 1942. UNCLE CHARLIE. by Gordon McDonell. The story is set in the little town of Hanford in the San Joaquin Valley, a typical American small town almost lost between the desert and mountains. In Hanford lives an unimportant little family of four — father, mother, daughter and son. They are little people, leading unimportant little lives.
SHADOW OF A DOUBT began as a six-page story, Uncle Charlie, by Gordon McDonell, whose wife headed David O. Selznick’s story department. The treatment was sketchy, but Hitchcock loved the premise, which he described as “bringing menace into a small town.” To establish the milieu as vividly as
