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Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Shadow of a Doubt Synopsis: Charlotte. Shadow of a Doubt. A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the.
She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much travelled Uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Potter as Mrs. Potter uncredited. Earle S. Dewey Mr. Norton as Mr. Norton uncredited. Alfred Hitchcock. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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 awhile.
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. Did you know Edit. He has the entire suit of spades in his hand, including the symbolic Ace. Goofs When Young Charlie finds she's locked in the garage with the car's engine running, she might reasonably have gone back to the car and broken out through the door with the car driven in reverse.
Quotes Uncle Charlie : You think you know something, don't you? User reviews Review. Top review. One of his very best - I've loved it since I was a child! Joseph Cotten plays Charlie, a crook on the run from the police. Left stranded and pursued, he decides to move in with his brother's family. His niece - who loves him and sees him as a sort of perfect role model - at first is excited that her Uncle Charlie is coming Charlie acts oddly and, at times, violent. She begins to become suspicious of her uncle as he becomes more suspicious of her own awareness.
The ending of "Shadow of a Doubt" is classic Hitchcock and some of the best stuff he's done. The entire film is taut and suspenseful, well-filmed and realistic.
It manages to focus on family ties and the struggles within the family itself while it also juggles the whole theme of an outcast family member. In the end, however, it's just a nail-biting thriller that - now over sixty years old - still reigns as one of the absolute best of its genre.
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