As part of its Gold Standard screening series and in connection with the Academy's “Casting a Shadow” exhibition, the Academy returns two Hitchcock classics to the big screen. The Fourth Floor Gallery will host special exhibition viewing hours from 5 to 7 p.m. and following each screening. One ticket gains admission to both films.

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Charlotte “Charlie” Newton idolizes her charming Uncle Charlie and is delighted when he arrives for an extended visit. When she gradually comes to believe that her uncle is connected with a series of murders, her suspicions put her own life in danger.

Cast Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates. 

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Produced by Jack H. Skirball. Screenplay Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville. Based on the original story by Gordon McDonell. Cinematography Joseph Valentine. Art Direction John B. Goodman. Associate Art Director Robert Boyle. Film Editing Milton Carruth. Costumes Vera West, Adrian. Music Dimitri Tiomkin. Sound Bernard B. Brown. Jack H. Skirball Productions. Universal Pictures. 35mm. 108 mins. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Academy Award® nominee: Writing – Original Motion Picture Story (McDonell).

Lifeboat (1944)
Eight disparate passengers from a torpedoed Allied freighter find themselves stranded aboard a lifeboat in the North Atlantic. When they rescue a German sailor from the U-boat that sank their ship, they must put their survival in the hands of a man who may deliver them to their wartime enemies.

Cast Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Produced by Kenneth Macgowan. Screenplay Jo Swerling. Based on the original story by John Steinbeck. Cinematography Glen MacWilliams. Art Direction James Basevi, Maurice Ransford. Film Editing Dorothy Spencer. Costumes René Hubert. Music Hugo W. Friedhofer. Sound Bernard Freericks, Roger Heman. Twentieth Century-Fox. 35mm. 96 mins. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Academy Award nominee: Black-and-White Cinematography (MacWilliams), Directing (Hitchcock), Writing – Original Motion Picture Story (Steinbeck).