History Film / ShadowOfADoubt

In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Uncle Charlie turns to face the viewer at the end of his MotiveRant.

* TheDitz: Mother Emma is quite the airhead. When the detective suggests that he take out her daughter for dinner so she can show him around town, she says with a big stupid grin, "Ann?" Ann is ''eleven.'' When he tells her he meant her older, adult daughter, she still insists he should take out Ann instead.

* HeManWomanHater: Uncle Charlie especially towards wealthy widows who he believes are wasting their husbands' money.

-->"The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands. Drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge. Playing all day and all night. Smelling of money. Proud of their jewelry but of nothing else. Horrible, faded, fat, greedy women... Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?"

''Shadow of a Doubt'' is a 1943 suspense film directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock. Creator/JosephCotten stars as Charlie, a SerialKiller on the run who comes back to his hometown of Santa Rosa, California to hide from the police. Creator/TeresaWright is his niece, also called Charlie, who [[CoolUncle idolizes him]]--until the agents hunting "Uncle Charlie" reveal to her who her uncle really is.

Said to be Hitchcock's [[CreatorsFavoriteEpisode favorite of his own films]]. Appropriately for a film set in a small town, the screenplay was co-written by Creator/ThorntonWilder. Check out Creator/RogerEbert's discussion on it [[ here https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-shadow-of-a-doubt-1943]].