Search Amazon for 'Shadow of a Doubt' Plot the film's score was by Dimitri Tiomkin, the first time he had worked with Hitchcock and is based on the 'Merry Widow' Waltz by Franz Lehár. The screenplay for the movie was by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville.
In several interviews Hitchcock named 'Shadow of a Doubt' as his favorite film. It was selected in 1991 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Although released to great critical acclaim, the film was nominated for only one Academy Award - for Gordon McDonnell's Original Story and won none. As the movie came out during WWII, it seems to have a direct parallel to the evil leaders loose in the world, particularly in the film's final scene.' Shadow of a Doubt' is a psychological thriller made by Alfred Hitchcock in 1943, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten.
The second half, including the increasing revelation of Uncle Charlie's dark views of humanity and the lengths to which he will go to protect himself, is what make the film so sinister. On the other hand, there is a real small town feeling to this setting, helped in no doubt by Thornton Wilder being one of the screenwriters, and the characters of Charlie's father (Henry Travers) and his friend (Hume Cronyn) passing the time by talking about the perfect murder are absolutely priceless. Some of the tension is also missing because we're pretty darn sure Uncle Charlie is guilty. I considered a slightly higher rating, but thought the pace in the first half of the movie was a little slow. Trouble is just behind him though, and it gets worse when his niece (also 'Charlie', named after him, and played by Teresa Wright) begins to suspect him of being the "Merry Widow Murderer". Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is on the run from the law on the East Coast, and he settles in with his sister and her family in Santa Rosa.
Hitchcock said this was his favorite film, and there is a quiet evil about it that makes it truly horrifying.
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