She gets exactly that with the arrival of her namesake uncle, Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten), a handsome and dashing travelling man of mystery who seems to have left New Jersey to elude pursuing detectives. Stuck in the quiet town of Santa Rosa, the spirited Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) alternates between grateful appreciation for her family and a desire for more excitement, perhaps even more danger, in her life. And Teresa Wright's radiant and textured performance is possibly the best by an actress in Hitch's entire filmography. Here takes pains to embrace his story rather than decorate it with Hitchcock 'touches.' In Saboteur, he didn't seem to have a handle on America, but the moods and millieu of this picture capture to perfection the world of small-town USA at a certain point in history. Gimmickmeister, or a technically driven director more concerned with his camera and hisĬinematic effects than with the dramatic content of his films, the Master of Suspense Shadow of a Doubt is Hitchcock's first 'mature' film. Writing credits Gordon McDonell, Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville Starring Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Wallace FordĪrt Direction Robert F.

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