![]() ![]() Images of whirling dancers reappear as the two Charlies get caught up in a dance towards an inevitable fate. The Merry Widow waltz is regularly repeated as a theme with sinister undercurrents since Uncle Charlie’s speciality is offing rich widows. The townsfolk around are oblivious and talk of him throughout as a wonderful man, only a detective who has infiltrated the family household posing as a censor suspects otherwise, and this allows him to form a bond with the young Charlie and in the end he is the only other person who gets to find out what really happened and while he wins the girl, it’s clear that her heart will always truly belong to her Uncle. ![]() Certainly he is hero worshipped by his niece, and yet she alone learns his true nature and ultimately (accidentally) causes his death. It’s unusual in having a central villain who is almost the hero. Hitchcock often said this was his favourite film – and certainly the one he found easiest to defend from his critics, in that it had the most plausible senario. ![]() He might look alright and have a voice that charms, but he is the devil in disguise. "Shadow of a Doubt" was filmed in British Columbia, Canada.Īndy Webb of The Movie Scene awarded "Shadow of a Doubt" a rating of 3 out of 5 stars, saying that it "ends up entertaining but in a bit of a bad movie way due to the over the top performances and a variety of forced scenes."Īdrian Turner from Radio Times gave it a rating of three stars out of 5, saying: " Dennehy has the heavyweight presence of Raymond Burr's Perry Mason, but he's nearly matched by Fairuza Balk's turn as the troubled teen.In the first scene a train enters the station, filling it with black smoke – and from the first it is clear that all is not right with Uncle Charlie. Charley Sloane, an alcoholic defense lawyer defends his ex-lover's stepdaughter when she is accused of murdering her father. ![]()
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