Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Sometimes an artist is so obviously magnificent at one thing, we hardly notice how good he is at others. I don’t know if people still say it, but all those comic scenes you find in Shakespeare’s tragedies are not just there for “comic relief.” Listen closely to what the drunken Porter says in Macbeth, and you’ll get in miniature and in devastatingly i…