I mistrusted the uncle thing as a term of endearment ever since. The end is neat and ironical, but not too artificially so, and Shadow of a Doubt will long stay in the mind as a' film of tense and cumulative interest.Uncle Charlie did it for me. Orson Welles, but it would not be fair to make too much of this - the core of the film's excellence is Mr. Cotten, one of the Mercury players, stresses the resemblance of the film's methods to those of Mr. Hitchcock has been content to hint, and he has in his camera and soundtrack allies cunning in the art of suggestion. the shadow of a doubt looms larger and more substantial until at last young Charlie knows, and, in knowing, stands in danger of her life.

two men posing as social survey officials turn out to be detectives. There is a man, wanted for what are known as the 'Merry Widow' murders. Joseph Cotten) is gay, handsome, and rich, he represents a wider world and a freer way of living, but before long doubts begin to intrude. To all of them it is a pleasant break in the daily round, but to Charlie ( Miss Teresa Wright), a girl at the age when restlessness and dissatisfaction move in the blood, it means more. The Newton family lives peacefully and uneventfully in California, and the domestic calm is pleasantly ruffled by the news that Emma Newton's brother is to visit them. In his last two or three films he had shown a disturbing tendency to substitute mechanical tricks for psychological subtlety as his means of building up an atmosphere of suspense, but here he succeeds, where in Suspicion he lamentably failed, and the attention of the audience is riveted as much on the nature of the characters as on the plot in which they are involved. Alfred Hitchcock at his best, and a good Hitchcock film is one of the greatest treats the cinema has to offer. keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Suspicion (1941), Teresa Wright.

1943 shadow of a doubt