This raises suspicions in Charlie as she must come to terms with an earth-shattering truth. However, a smoky cloud floats around Charles and his strange behaviour, coupled with news of the hunt for a serial killer. At first, young Charlie seems enraptured, believing an unexplainable connection exists between them.
Arriving in town, Charles integrates himself into the Newton home and – by extension – the wider community. What will ‘shake everything up’, she decides, is inviting Uncle Charles (her mother’s brother, played by Joseph Cotten) to come and stay. Shadow of a Doubt depicts the Newton family, centring on teenage girl Charlie (Teresa Wright) who is beginning to question the meaning of small-town life. Made in the height of WWII, Hitchcock’s takedown of the American family offers a bleak and brooding tale, reflective of the paranoia and nihilism buried beneath a veneer of respectability. Rebecca McCallum returns with a new essay in her series on Hitchcock’s Women, this time zeroing in on a tale of domestic terror which was Hitch’s favourite of his own films…
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