Synopsis
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.
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Cast
- Teresa WrightCharlie Newton
- Joseph CottenCharlie Oakley
- Macdonald CareyJack Graham
- Henry TraversJoseph Newton
- Patricia CollingeEmma Newton
- Hume CronynHerbie Hawkins
- Wallace FordFred Saunders
- Edna May WonacottAnn Newton
- Charles BatesRoger Newton
- Irving BaconStation Master
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
Hitchcock's discovery of darkness within the heart of small-town America remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death. - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
No one would ever accuse Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt of being plausible, but it is framed so distinctively in the Hitchcock style that it plays firmly and never breaks out of the story. - 100
The New York Times
You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood. - 100
Slant Magazine
Hitch’s habit of taking us to the edge of the abyss and then returning us with a wink, so often resulting in unconvincing happy endings, here seals one of his most pitiless visions of a monstrous cosmos admitted only to be denied. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
The sly Hitchcock made this chiller all the more frightening by having his crafty homicidal maniac intrude into the tranquility of a warm, middle-class family living in a small town, deeply developing his characters and drawing from the soft-spoken Joseph Cotten one of the actor's most remarkable and fascinating performances. - 90
Time
A superb film. - 90
The Dissolve
Hitchcock is fully Hitchcock here, plunging deeply into his characters’ psyches, and remaining in full control of every cinematic effect. - 80
Time Out
Funny, gripping, and expertly shot by Joe Valentine, it's a small but memorable gem.
