Sure enough, there is a romantic subplot involving Young Charlie and one of the detectives, but on the whole the movie fills many of the film-noir tropes. But Shadow of a Doubt is a straight noir. Hitchcock’s films are a mélange of several elements from different genres: Vertigo (romantic paranormal murder mystery), Psycho (film-noir horror). Uncle Charlie is the Hyde to his namesake’s Jekyll linked together by name and circumstance, playing constant mind games with one another till the climax, set on the place where it began the train. Shadow of a Doubt creates one of cinema’s best villain/hero pairings. The two try to best one another in a struggle for control over the situation. When two detectives looking for Uncle Charlie show up in town, Young Charlie finds out the awful truth about her eponymous uncle. Uncle Charlie is a tall, handsome, cynical, intelligent urban business man, or at least that’s what he tells everybody. Uncle Charlie injects an exciting life back into the family and into Young Charlie’s rather boring existence. His young, virginal niece, Young Charlie (Teresa Wright) is delighted to welcome her uncle.
Cotton portrays Uncle Charlie, a man with a mysterious past, who arrives in the small Southern Californian town to stay with his estranged relatives and hide from two pursuing detectives a secret he keeps to himself.Īt first, Uncle Charlie is an angel to the Newton family. In Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943), the devil arrives by train on the small suburban town of Santa Rosa, California in the form of Joseph Cotton ( The Third Man).
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