Shadow of a Doubt (1943)





A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.


Film programs

Filmpost nr. 1

Books with substantial mentioning of Shadow of a Doubt

David Greven
Intimate violence, Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory
Oxford, 2017

David Humbert
Violence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, A study in mimesis
East Lansing, 2017

Paul Verhoeven, Rob van Scheers
Meer Verhoeven, Op stap door de filmgeschiedenis met Paul Verhoeven
Amsterdam, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Robert J. Yanal
Hitchcock as philosopher
Jefferson, N.C., 2005

John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

David Sterritt
The films of Alfred Hitchcock
Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA, 1993

Tony Thomas
The Films of the Forties
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Books with an entry on Shadow of a Doubt

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Articles on Shadow of a Doubt

Thomas B. Byers, Shadows of Modernity, What Maisie Knew and Shadow of a Doubt, in: Susan M. Griffin and Alan Nadel (eds.), The Men Who Knew Too Much, New York, 2012