Shadow of a Doubt1943
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Critic Consensus: Alfred Hitchcock's earliest classic -- and his own personal favorite -- deals its flesh-crawling thrills as deftly as its finely shaded characters.
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Cast
as Uncle Charlie
as Charlie
as Jack Graham
as Herbie Hawkins
as Joseph Newton
as Ann Newton
as Fred Saunders
as Station Master
as Roger Newton
as Roger Newton
as Emma Newton
as Railroad Porter
as Louise
as Girl Friend
as Mrs. Henderson, Pani Henderson
as Mrs. Green, Pani Green
as Pan Norton, Mr. Norton
as Librarian
as Doctor on Train
as Doctor's Wife on Train
as Dr. Phillip
as Mrs. Phillip
as Rev. MacCurdy
as Mrs. MacCurdy
as Pan Green, Mr. Green
as Pani Poetter, Mrs. Poetter
as Detective, Detektyw
as Detective, Detektyw
as Mrs. Martin, Pani Martin
as Young Girl
Critic Reviews for Shadow of a Doubt
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It's Hitchcock unleashed...
An Alfred Hitchcock picture is something of an event. This one, which runs for an hour and 45 minutes, is an ingenious and unorthodox thriller which is continuously entertaining.
A series of tense dramatic scenes superbly acted by Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright.
Master of the suspense drama that he is, Hitchcock keeps his climax for the very end. When it comes it is terrific. The final curtain Is a glorious piece of cynicism.
Shadow of a Doubt may or may not be Hitchcock's greatest film, but it's his most intimate and heart-wrenching.
This is certainly one of Hitchcock's most satisfying thrillers, mostly thanks to Wright and Cotten's believable relationship.
Audience Reviews for Shadow of a Doubt
The title's doubt grows in us much before it is planted inside the character's mind halfway through this superbly-written story, which is a testament to how this tense, suspenseful mystery is slowly and carefully built in what is one of Hitchcock's most steadily-paced thrillers.
Super Reviewer
Interesting older movie. Good characters and well made. The initial relationship between the two Charlie's was slightly disturbing. Lol. Could be just how my mind works though. I would say this was a more innocent time, but perhaps not when all is revealed. The annoying younger sister was amusing and the young Charlie was quite endearing also. Black and white always looks so stylish too.
Super Reviewer
Hitchcock made so many brilliant films in his long career that it's easy to overlook certain gems among showier works like Psycho, Vertigo and The Birds, yet in its quiet, unassuming way, Shadow of a Doubt is as perfect as anything the master ever made. I don't necessarily cite it as a fault - indeed, he often uses it to advantage - but there is certainly much in Hitchcock that is artificial and studio-bound. Here, however, by effectively casting (then) small-town America as a central character in the drama and opting to shoot on location in Santa Rosa, California, Hitchcock achieves with Shadow of a Doubt a vividness of setting virtually unparalleled elsewhere in his oeuvre, possible exceptions being the San Francisco of Vertigo or the Covent Garden of Frenzy. This might also be Hitchcock's most perfectly cast movie, with even the most minor of characters perfectly realised. Joseph Cotton is cast superbly against type as the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing, Uncle Charlie, but the heart and soul of the picture is the beautifully judged performance of Teresa Wright as Charlie's adoring niece and namesake. I would personally rank the adorable Miss Wright as my favourite heroine in all of Hitchcock.
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Shadow of a Doubt Quotes
| Charlie Oakley: | Everybody was sweet and pretty then Charlie, the whole world, wonderful world. Not like the world today, not like the world now. |
| Charlie Oakley: | You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. |
| Charlie Oakley: | The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women?You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women. |
| Young Charlie Newton: | But they're alive,they're human beings! |
| Charlie Oakley: | Are they? |
| Charlie Oakley: | Are they? |