Hitchcock Chronology: Gordon McDonell
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Gordon McDonell...
1942
May
- 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. Initially titled "Uncle Charlie", the story becomes Shadow of a Doubt. McDonnell's original story ends with the uncle falling off a cliff after a failed attempt to silence his niece.[1][2]
- 5th - Gordon McDonell provides Hitchcock with a typewritten version of his "Uncle Charlie" story.[3]
- 7th - After hearing Gordon McDonell's "Uncle Charlie" story outline, Jack H. Skirball green-lights Shadow of a Doubt as Hitchcock's second film for Universal.[4]
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 307
- ↑ Wikipedia: Brown Derby
- ↑ Uncle Charlie by Gordon McDonell (05/May/1942)
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 308
