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Shadow of a Doubt

What horror did her secret life hold… that made her dread this man of her dreams?

1943 · 1h 47m · PG Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

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Overview

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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Peels back the welcoming warmth and sincere innocence of small-town life to reveal the gullibility and the naivete underneath; it's a fiction about the perpetuation of fictions.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Hitchcock deftly etches his small-town characters and homey surroundings.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

One of Hitchcock's finest films of the '40s.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times

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