News breaks that an alternative suspect was chased by police and killed by an airplane propeller it is assumed that he was the murderer. Detective Saunders tells Charlie that the photo they took of Uncle Charlie was sent for identification by witnesses. He begs her for help she reluctantly agrees not to say anything, as long as he leaves soon, to avoid a horrible confrontation that would destroy her mother, who idolizes her younger brother. Uncle Charlie follows and takes her into a seedy bar. One night, when Charlie's father and his friend Herbie discuss how to commit the perfect murder, Uncle Charlie lets his guard down and describes elderly widows as 'fat, wheezing animals' he then says, 'What happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?' Horrified, Charlie runs out. The initials engraved inside a ring he gave her match those of one of the murdered women, and during a family dinner he reveals his hatred of rich widows. Charlie refuses to believe it at first, but then observes Uncle Charlie acting strangely, primarily with a certain news clipping from her father's newspaper. He explains that her uncle is one of two suspects who may be the 'Merry Widow Murderer'. One takes a photo of Uncle Charlie, who demands the roll of film, because 'no one takes my photograph.' The younger surveyor, Jack Graham, asks young Charlie out, and she guesses that he is really a detective. Two men appear, supposedly working on a national survey.

She receives wonderful news: Her mother's younger brother (her namesake), Charles Oakley, is arriving for a visit. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.Ĭharlie Newton is a bored teenaged girl living in the idyllic town of Santa Rosa, California.

Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell. $1.2 Million USD Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten.

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