Fresh
Peels back the welcoming warmth and sincere innocence of small-town life to reveal the gullibility and the naivete underneath; it's a fiction about the perpetuation of fictions.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Shadow of a Doubt
What horror did her secret life hold… that made her dread this man of her dreams?
1943 · 1h 48m · PG
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
Director and cast
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Teresa Wright as Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton
- Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie Oakley
- Macdonald Carey as Jack Graham
- Henry Travers as Joseph Newton
- Patricia Collinge as Emma Newton
- Hume Cronyn as Herbie Hawkins
- Wallace Ford Cast
- Edna May Wonacott Cast
- Charles Bates Cast
- Irving Bacon Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Hitchcock deftly etches his small-town characters and homey surroundings.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
One of Hitchcock's finest films of the '40s.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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