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Shadow of a Doubt
A young woman discovers her visiting 'Uncle Charlie' may be wanted for murder. Although one of the suspected murderers is killed and the case is considered closed, she still has her suspicions.
12 February 1898, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
11 October 1881, Glyn Train, Denbighshire, South Wales, UK
15 January 1935, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 September 1894, Eureka, California, USA
13 August 1899, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
15 March 1913, Sioux City, Iowa, USA
14 October 1889, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
20 September 1892, Dublin, Ireland
19 March 1875, Brooklyn, New York, USA
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
18 July 1911, London, Ontario, Canada
5 December 1927, Oakland, California, USA
July 14, 2015
Derives its power from its stark simplicity.March 24, 2015
If the motives of filmmakers are revealed in the frames of their more obscure pictures, then 'Shadow of a Doubt' is a resounding testament to the power of Alfred Hitchcock's vast creative engine.April 24, 2009
Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece.December 03, 2006
The collaboration between Thornton Wilder and Hitchcock proves to be extremely fertile for it allows both American writer and British director to dissect small-town life way beyond the former's Our Town.June 24, 2006
One of Hitchcock's finest films of the '40s.April 24, 2009
A superb film.May 20, 2003
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.June 10, 2008
Hitchcock deftly etches his small-town characters and homey surroundings.May 25, 2015
This 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.February 17, 2006
Like Lynch's fever-dream of transcendental perversity Blue Velvet, Shadow of a Doubt is about awakening, the simultaneous darkening and enlarging of the world.December 03, 2012
Peels back the welcoming warmth and sincere innocence of small-town life to reveal the gullibility and the naïveté underneath; it's a fiction about the perpetuation of fictions.May 16, 2008
The suspense builds effortlessly throughout.