Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Star Rating- 3
Length of Film- 108 minutes
Director- Alfred Hitchcock
Cast- Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotton, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates, Irving Bacon, Clarence Muse, Janet Shaw, & Estelle Jewell
Oscar Nomination- Gordon McDonnell (screenplay) 





Serial killer leaves the city to small suburbia where his sister lives. His teenage niece, Charlie is named after her uncle, and they have this weird psychic connection. As soon as Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is around, Charlie (Teresa Wright) has a vision of a party and hearing a specific song. We later find out it's the location where the murders happened.

Uncle Charlie said he was in business, and deposited $40,000 in the bank where his brother-in-law works. Everything was peachy keen until detectives come to town. They don't come right out and say they're detectives. They say they're working on a national survey. They come to the house, with a camera to take photos of a working class family, but they're really wanting photos of Uncle Charlie, the murderer suspect. The photographer snaps a photo of Uncle C, but he demands the film, stating he NEVER has his photo taken.

Detective Jack (MacDonald Carey), falls in love with young Charlie and proposes marriage after admitting his intentions to why he was actually there; their suspicions that Charlie is the murderer. Young Charlie does research and finds newspaper clippings and her visions fit the scene of the crime. The ring he gave young Charlie as a gift, had initials engraved in them that matched one of the murders initials. 

Charlie catches on to Young Charlie's skepticism and he tries to get rid of her. The ending is a very Alfred Hitchcocky...suspenseful, edge of your seat.