Diane Carrington

Presents

Alfred Hitchcock’s

Shadow of a Doubt

1943

The Hitchcock Factor

Shadow of a Doubt

Starring Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie

Teresa Wright as Young Charlie

Great Chemistry

A Family Affair

Motifs

• Duality

• Imprisonment

• Vampires

Duality

We meet Charlie

Alter Egos

Doppelgangers

“We’re twins, you and I.”

Telepathy

The World of Two

Face to Face

Shadows

The Ring

“I’ll kill you myself!”

Homicide or Suicide?

Imprisonment

Prison Bars

A Vampire Among Us

Inviting Trouble

Innocence Lost

“They’re alive! They’re human beings!”

“Are they?”

Same Blood

The Culmination

Ambiguity

“What it boils down to is that villains are not all black and heroes are not all white; There are grays everywhere.” Alfred Hitchcock

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