He reveals that they’re in town looking for the “Merry Widow Murderer” who killed a wealthy widow in San Francisco. Suspicions are raised when a pair of news photographers visit the Newton home for a magazine story, who Charlotte later discovers are a couple of undercover detectives on the hunt for a killer with one of the detectives Jack Graham ( Macdonald Carey ) soon falling for her after she discovers his occupation. ![]() Together they all welcome them into their home, hoping that Uncle Charlie might agree to settle down nearby. They head back home where we meet the rest of the Newton family, including Charlie’s sister and Charlotte’s mom Emma Newton ( Patricia Collinge ) who absolutely adores her brother, Charlotte’s dad and true crime lover Joseph Newton ( Henry Travers ), and her younger erudite sister Ann ( Edna May Wonacott ). “Uncle” Charles Oakley ( Joseph Cotten ) arrives by train in Santa Rosa, California, where his niece Charlotte “Charlie” Newton waits for him the train covers her in a thick dark shadow as it pulls in and Uncle Charlie gets off. Shadow of a Doubt is a bit different from most of Hitchcock’s storyline, in this case being about an murderous uncle who tries to hide out in a small American town. ![]() Writer: Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville story by Gordon McDonellĪfter Saboteur (1942), I headed into the next of Hitchcock’s 1940s contributions, and again haven’t watched this since first receiving the Masterpiece Collection.
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