

It also served as the inspiration for Park Chan-wook's Stoker. The film has been remade twice: in 1958 as Step Down to Terror, and in 1991 under the original title as a TV movie in which Mark Harmon portrayed Uncle Charlie. Check out Roger Ebert's discussion on it here. Appropriately for a film set in a small town, the screenplay was co-written by Thornton Wilder. Said to be Hitchcock's favorite of his own films. Teresa Wright is his niece Charlotte Newton, also called Charlie, who idolizes him-until the agents hunting "Uncle Charlie" reveal to her who her uncle really is. Joseph Cotten stars as Charles "Charlie" Oakley, a Serial Killer on the run who comes back to his hometown of Santa Rosa, California to hide from the police. Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Uncle Charlie: It's not good to find out too much, Charlie. Young Charlie: Something secret and wonderful. I have a feeling that inside you there's something nobody knows about. I know you don't tell people a lot of things. Young Charlie: We're not just an uncle and a niece.
