This 80th anniversary restoration is presented following its selection at this year’s TCM Festival. His niece, drawn to his spirit of malevolence, takes on the roles of both imperilled investigator and curious student. With the law on his trail (he’s suspected to be the “Merry Widow Murderer”), Uncle Charlie brings the acid tongue and ruthlessness of noir to the safety of Santa Rosa. Hitchcock’s sixth in America, but his first to shed gothic shadings and spies for something more perverse, the film quickly shuttles between two ends of a nearly telepathic link shared between adolescent Charlie (Teresa Wright) and her namesake, urbane uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten).
Enter Shadow of a Doubt, which invades the domestic drama wearing a mirthless smile. “Hitchcock’s first indisputable masterpiece … Remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death.” Dave Kehr, Chicago Readerįor all his associations with the warp and weft of criminal psychology, Alfred Hitchcock only rarely organized his films around the mind of a killer.
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