Thriller · Mystery
Shadow of a Doubt
What horror did her secret life hold… that made her dread this man of her dreams?
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
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Top Cast
Teresa Wright
Young Charlie
Joseph Cotten
Uncle Charlie
Macdonald Carey
Jack Graham
Henry Travers
Joseph Newton
Patricia Collinge
Emma Newton
Hume Cronyn
Herbie Hawkins
Wallace Ford
Fred Saunders
Edna May Wonacott
Ann Newton
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Production
Universal PicturesReviews
John Chard
9/108/6/2019
Merry Widow Murderer - Hitchcock style! Shadow Of A Doubt was believed to have been Hitchcock's own favourite movie, the one that he was most proud of as he felt his critics hadn't got any justifiable ammunition to shoot him down with. The film stands out because it doesn't have the tongue in cheek dark humour traits that light up most of the maestro's classics. The cheeky bonus is that of having the central premise of the main protagonist being a hero of the people. His family all adore him, where he is on the surface a man that all men want to be, and it's here that Hitchcock moulds a chilling filmic arc, in fact, it's a masterstroke of filmic manipulation. The plot involves Uncle Charlie returning to his adoring family in Santa Rosa after avoiding his apprehension for the murder o
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