I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

To me, this movie is perfection.

Boring

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Gigi Perreau is Susie, a traumatized child in "Shadow on the Wall," a 1950 movie also starring Zachary Scott, Ann Sothern, and Nancy Davis aka our First Lady from 1980-1988. Zachary Scott is David, who confronts his wife Celia about her affair with her sister's fiancé. A fight ensues, and Celia knocks him out with a hand mirror. Her angry sister Dell (Sothern) arrives and kills her. Susie enters the room and screams. David is accused of the crime, and, fuzzy about what happened as he was hit, believes he did it. With her father on Death Row, Susie winds up in a hospital being treated by Dr. Canford (Davis), who tries to recover the child's memory of the murder and what she's blocking.Today, I doubt if Dad would be bringing his child an Indian doll, referred to in the movie as a "black Injun doll" that little Susie names Cupid. The doll figures in the story, however.The script is slight though the performances hold up. For a change, Scott is not evil but rather as much a victim of his sister-in-law as his wife. He is charming with the adorable Perreau, who handles her large role very well. The role Sothern plays is unusual for her also. Though she's excellent, this isn't her métier. Her voice, looks, and vivacious personality were best used in comedy. And why was she in a B movie in 1950 at MGM a year after Mankiewicz costarred her in "A Letter to Three Wives" at 20th Century Fox? Davis is pretty and effective as the caring psychiatrist, but there wasn't anything particularly exceptional about her, which is why stardom eluded her. A different kind of stardom lay ahead. There is an interesting scene where she's talking with Dell over a hefty lunch. Given her appearance in later years, it may have been the last time she ate.There's a major hole in this script regarding the murder weapon. David has a gun, and so does Dell. Dell uses her gun to kill Celia and presumably takes it with her. Wasn't the gun that was found tested? Also, when Dell gets rid of the clothes she wore that night, she doesn't send the gun over the bridge along with them. Bad writing."Shadow on the Wall" is of definite interest for the actors but ultimately disappointing because of the script.

I first saw this film when I was about five years old. There were two things I remembered clearly. The first was Nancy Davis as the psychiatrist talking about the sketch of the Indian doll which little Gigi Perreau* had named "Cupid." At five years of age I assumed that "Cupid" was an Indian spirit that was menacing the girl. The second was the climax in which the little girl realized that her aunt, Ann Sothern, was the killer(I won't go into details for people who have not yet seen this film, but it's a stunner.) The latter scene practically scared me out of my diapers, as I thought that Sothern was not a human being, but a ghost of some kind.I carried the memories of those two scenes with me for over fifty years. I finally got up the courage (yes, it took me that long)to buy the video online. As it turned out, SHADOW ON THE WALL was not a supernatural tale of menace, but a darn good little suspense story. It just shows you what tricks your memory can play on you.Now, if I can just do the same thing with CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN...*who I actually met in the mid-sixties, and did not seem to be any taller than she appeared in the movie.

FOLKS, please stop abusing the term "film noir." This flick is a very mundane B movie, with a ridiculous plot.The actors are adequate, certainly, but this film is little more than a "filler." Scott, Southern and Davis are fine, considering the material with which they are working.The first twenty minutes are promising, but the film quickly falls apart, once the plot is centered on the young girl.It's great to have access to these obscure movies on TCM. However, this is simply a poorly constructed film. And, to reiterate, this is NOT A FILM NOIR.

I'm convinced that movies that have SHADOW in the title have a better than average chance of being good flicks. This flick SHADOW ON THE WALL upholds that little axiom. It starts slow, but stick with it, it picks up steam quickly.This one eschews the normal trappings of noir, such as the seedy private eye, and the femme fatale while maintaining the stark cinematography and riveting suspense. Ann Sothern turning in a surprising performance, always the good girl in movies, here the director plays on that, to create a character whose actions becomes ever more... egregious. And because she is so much one of us, one of the good people, we are carried along... with her fall.A movie that ultimately revolves around four women as central characters, would hardly seem to fit the noirish mold, but this film is far less lifetime network and far more grim, and gritty. The only foray into the the world of Noir by its director Pat Jackson, and the only script ever done by its writer Hannah Lees, the movie is deserving of far more recognition than its received. A solid little thriller. *** out of **** stars.