Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

SHADOW OF A DOUBT  (1943)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Alfred Hitchcock
    Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey,
    Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn
Good old Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) returns home after a long time away, with a jocular air, a bunch of good stories, and $40,000 in cash he'd like to deposit in his brother-in-law's bank. There's something suspicious about Uncle Charlie that the movie has hinted at, but it takes his niece (Teresa Wright) a while to figure it out. It's one of Hitchcock's most unsettling movies, and one of Cotten's most memorable roles. The credited screenwriters include Thornton Wilder and Hitchcock's wife Alma. Uncredited ones include Hitchcock himself, and the exchanges between Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn about the different ways they might murder each other are almost certainly the director's work.