SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)

 

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn, Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates, Irving Bacon, Clarence Muse, Janet Shaw, Estelle Jewell, Minerva Urecal, Isabel Randolph, Earle S. Dewey, Eily Malyon, Edward Fielding, Vaughan Glaser, Virginia Brissac, Sarah Edwards, Ruth Lee, Grandon Rhoades, Edwin Stanley, Frances Carson, Byron Shores, John McGuire, Constance Purdy, Shirley Mills, Alfred Hitchcock

108 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

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 a while. 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.

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