She has idolized Uncle Charlie to be a fantastic and spectacular character, out of the ordinary, the opposite to the everyday life in the small town ("I don't like to be from an average family"). On this viewing, my main impression of the movie was that it is about the young girl's endless disappointment and sorrow. Yet his niece Charlotte, also called "Charlie", instinctively knows the truth, and she becomes the sole remaining obstacle for Uncle Charlie. But there is another man who becomes the prime suspect, and when he dies Uncle Charlie gets a real opportunity to live the rest of his life undetected. We are made to identify with him from the start when the policemen get on his trail.
Unusually, the serial killer is the real protagonist of this movie. A criminal's whole existence is a fake because he has to keep up an unremitting masquerade and any little detail may give him away. My previous main impression of Shadow of a Doubt was that it is about the torment of living in a permanent lie. Revisited a key work of Alfred Hitchcock, one that he at times called his personal favourite. A BFINA print viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki (Alfred Hitchcock), 30 August 2012. Helsinki premiere: Astor, released by Astor Film – Finnish classification number 25617 – K16 – 2850 m / 104 min. MacCurdy), Alfred Hitchcock (man on the train playing cards).
Martin), Edward Fielding, Sarah Edwards (a doctor and a wife on the train), Grandon Rhodes, Ruth Lee (Reverend and Mrs.
C: Joseph Cotten (Uncle Charlie = Charles Oakley), Teresa Wright (Charlotte "Charlie" Newton), Macdonald Carey (Detective Jack Graham), Patricia Collinge (Emma Newton, mother), Henry Travers (Joseph Newton, father), Hume Cronyn (Herbie Hawkins), Wallace Ford (Detective Fred Saunders), Edma Mae Wonacott (Ann Newton), Charles Bates (Roger Newton), Irving Bacon (station master), Clarence Muse (porter), Janet Shaw (Louise), Estelle Jewell (girlfriend), Minerva Urecal (Mrs. SC: Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville, Sally Benson – based on a story by Gordon McDonnel. US 1943 (New York premiere: 12 January 1943) © 1942 Universal Pictures. Epäilyksen varjo / Skuggan av ett tvivel.
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