little girl

Brennan 2022-03-25 09:01:10

When Uncle Charlie went to Santa Rosa, a sleepy small town, to visit his relatives, the "Master of Suspense" took advantage of others to open the prelude to this suspenseful and tense plot. In this Hitchcock-directed thriller, Joseph Cotten's seemingly amiable murderer who has deceived all his loved ones is understated.

Soon after, however, his niece, "Little Charlie" (Teresa Wright) by the same name, begins to suspect that her uncle has a terrible secret from everyone. Then she was finally convinced by the police that this "uncle" was actually the murderer of Merry Widow. As a result, he began to continuously make the girl's nerves tense and almost crazy, making her the next target of the murderer. The murderer planned how to make the girl disappear forever without attracting suspicion and attention from others.

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Extended Reading
  • Enid 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    It is neither a crime nor the suspense of solving a case. It only starts from a scene that is suspected to be a case, and advances layer by layer hints until the murder, the murderer's revelation, and the final accident (homicide) ends. The repeated hype and innovation of genre films can be seen in this film. Although it is innovative, it feels a little delayed in the middle and late stages. Hitchcock's humor doesn't come from a few jars.

  • Carter 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    The first Hitchcock movie, the story is tepid, and there is something beyond words. The camera and the actor's expressions are really attractive.

Shadow of a Doubt quotes

  • Uncle Charlie: The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking their money, eating their money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.

    Young Charlie: But they're alive. They're human beings.

    Uncle Charlie: Are they? Are they, Charlie? Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?

  • Young Charlie: We're not just an uncle and a niece. It's something else. I know you. I know you don't tell people a lot of things. I don't either. I have a feeling that inside you there's something nobody knows about.

    Uncle Charlie: Something - nobody knows?

    Young Charlie: Something secret and wonderful. I'll find it out.

    Uncle Charlie: It's not good to find out too much, Charlie.