
Charlotte "Charlie" Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and younger sister. She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated, much-traveled Uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delight when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from Uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies' club... (Full plot summary below)
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Charlotte "Charlie" Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and younger sister. She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated, much-traveled Uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delight when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from Uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies' club, as well as the bank President where his brother-in-law works. Young Charlie begins to notice odd behavior on his part, such as cutting out a story in the local paper about a man who marries and then murders rich widows. When two strangers appear asking questions about him, she begins to imagine the worst about her beloved Uncle Charlie.
Leave your thoughts about Shadow of a Doubt.
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonThis thriller's horrible fascination lies in watching the strong-willed young lady's admiration of, fondness for, and idealization of a supposed gentleman clot and curdle. The plot's marred only by a slightly rushed and convenient ending. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNo 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. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrHitchcock'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. |
| Slant MagazineFernando CroceHitch’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. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricka brilliant piece of cynicism that exposes hypocrisy, moral rot, and a guilt that pervades both conventional criminals and everyday citizens |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherYou'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. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostEerie, disturbing thriller, with much to say about gender, feminism, the benefits of government and "Love Thy Neighbor". |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewOne of Hitchcock's finest films of the '40s. |
| Boston GlobeMichael BowenFunny, gripping, and expertly shot by Joe Valentine, it's a small but memorable gem. |
| F5 (Wichita, KS)Jake EukerMaybe the most German of Hitchcock's Hollywood films. |