Shadow of a Doubt charts the increasingly tense visit of Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) to his sister’s (Patricia Collinge) family in a sleepy part of Santa Rosa. As suggested several times throughout his life, Hitchcock’s favourite Hitchcock was Shadow of a Doubt. It is fitting then that, over the years when quizzed about which of his 50 or so films was his personal favourite, the choice was one that concerned murder. As Hitchcock once put it: “a glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.” Yet suave Uncle Charlie was arguably also an expression of its director’s inner persona. Central to this celebrated, tense film is an alarming streak of pessimism, one inhabited brilliantly by Cotten’s unnerving and irredeemably nasty character. “The whole world is a joke to me,” claims Joseph Cotten as the villainous Uncle Charlie in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt.
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