The second half, including the increasing revelation of Uncle Charlie's dark views of humanity and the lengths to which he will go to protect himself, is what make the film so sinister. On the other hand, there is a real small town feeling to this setting, helped in no doubt by Thornton Wilder being one of the screenwriters, and the characters of Charlie's father (Henry Travers) and his friend (Hume Cronyn) passing the time by talking about the perfect murder are absolutely priceless. Some of the tension is also missing because we're pretty darn sure Uncle Charlie is guilty. I considered a slightly higher rating, but thought the pace in the first half of the movie was a little slow. Trouble is just behind him though, and it gets worse when his niece (also 'Charlie', named after him, and played by Teresa Wright) begins to suspect him of being the "Merry Widow Murderer". Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is on the run from the law on the East Coast, and he settles in with his sister and her family in Santa Rosa. MovieArt Austin will sell NO reproductions.Hitchcock said this was his favorite film, and there is a quiet evil about it that makes it truly horrifying. MovieArt Austin guarantees that this poster is an authentic, original, vintage Italian locandina for this movie. This is a great, if inexpensive, poster for the film. The insert is in fine plus condition but there are two punched with a hole-puncher as if to indicate that the poster was somehow kept in an aggregate of collected posters (in a book of sorts.) A more modernist interpretative art by Franco Picchioni. This is an Italian 15x28 (fotobusta) for a sixties re-release of the film. Hitchcock plays the unraveling of affection and confidence into doubt, distress and finally terror with the directorial sureness for which he is remembered.
Wright fairly woships her debonair and mysterious uncle until certain disturbing traits begin to unravel some sinister secrets. After many years of uncertain travel, he comes to Santa Rosa, California to stay with his sister. And it certainly is one of most chilling of Hitchcock's films of the 1940s. SHADOW OF A DOUBT was reputed to be Hitchcock's favorite of all his films. Universal Pictures Italian 14x28 Locandina Re-release of 1962 Art by Franco Picchioni
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