Shadow of a Doubt

Hitchcock’s tale of a young woman beginning to wonder whether her favourite uncle might have a dark side…

  • Director

    Alfred Hitchcock

  • With

    Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey, Patricia Collinge

  • USA 1943. 108min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

One of Hitchcock’s finest American films, this finds ‘the Merry Widow murderer’ (Cotten) taking refuge in his sister’s home; will his adoring niece (Wright) realise that her handsome, kindly uncle might be a killer? The film offers an astute depiction of small-town American life, and Truffaut – a great Hitchcock fan – admired its psychological subtlety and resonance and its imaginative casting.