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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Release Date:
16 August 1943 (Sweden)
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A Blast of DRAMATIC Dynamite exploded right before your eyes!
Plot:
A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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1 nomination
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Quiet, remarkable thriller
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Teresa Wright | ... | Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton |
 | Joseph Cotten | ... | Uncle Charlie Oakley |
| Macdonald Carey | ... | Jack Graham |
| Henry Travers | ... | Joseph Newton |
| Patricia Collinge | ... | Emma Newton |
 | Hume Cronyn | ... | Herbie Hawkins |
| Wallace Ford | ... | Fred Saunders |
| Edna May Wonacott | ... | Ann Newton |
| Charles Bates | ... | Roger Newton |
| Irving Bacon | ... | Station Master |
| Clarence Muse | ... | Pullman Porter |
| Janet Shaw | ... | Waitress Louise Finch |
| Estelle Jewell | ... | Catherine |
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Shadow of Doubt (USA) (poster title)
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108 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Spain:13 |
South Korea:15 (2004) |
Brazil:14 |
USA:PG (re-rating) (1984) |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Ireland:PG |
Peru:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
USA:Approved (PCA #9011) (original rating) |
UK:A (original rating)
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The name of the waltz that is referred to throughout the film is "The Merry Widow Waltz".
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Crew or equipment visible: When young Charlie is reading the newspaper in the library, the camera casts a shadow on her back.
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Quotes:
Young Charlie:
What time does the library close?
Ann Newton: If you'd read as much as you should, you'd know it closes at nine.
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Ann Newton: If you'd read as much as you should, you'd know it closes at nine.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
The Merry Widow Waltz
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Top-drawer Hitchcock. It's got everything you'd expect from the director - although he's sparing with his usual tropes of tension-building. The story is strong enough without it.
From the start there's something different about this film, something that one only really encounters in Psycho. Following the ballroom titles (David Lynch cannot possibly have begun Mulholland Drive unaware of this tiny, recurring set piece) we meet the first protagonist Charlie (Joseph Cotten). He's in a state closer to that of Camus' disengaged fumeur Meursault than any other conventional leading man. The rest of the film pans out in this ambiguous way. Whomsoever Charlie meets or has to engage with, his manner is wretchedly bipolar - either violent or ebullient. His is the world-wearied end of the family that he goes to visit. This much steadier, morally ring-fenced world has it's own version of Uncle Charlie in the eldest daughter by the same name. Teresa Wright (a dead ringer for Ellen Page) has all his sensitivity but none of his front-line experience of life. The film charts her awakening.
A brilliant, adult and humorous film I found myself laughing out loud and close to tears - the unsullied joy of the family at the opening is disarmingly unaffected. It's also one of the most sexually electric films I've seen in a very long time. 8/10