“Shadow of a Doubt” quotes
(1943)
Alfred Hitchcock
directed this movie
in 1943
Title Shadow of a Doubt
Year 1943
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Genre Thriller
Year 1943
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Genre Thriller
Plot – Young Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton lives a far too quiet life at home with her parents, Joe and Emma, and her siblings, Anna and Roger, in Santa Rosa, California. Charlie would like for something exciting to happen so she is unable to contain her joy at the unexpected news of the arrival of charming globetrotter Uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Shortly after his arrival, however, Uncle Charlie begins to act strangely: he makes an excuse to remove an article from the newspaper; he does not want to be photographed; he refuses to take a survey two government representatives give the family. These signals are beginning to cast doubts into the niece's mind about her uncle and when she finds out that the police are hunting for a mysterious killer who seduces and kills rich widows, Charlie's affection for her uncle is soon replaced by suspicion.
All actors – Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates, Irving Bacon, Clarence Muse, Janet Shaw
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“There's one good thing in being a widow, isn't there? You don't have to ask your husband for money.”
“You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares.”
“I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true.”
“What do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.”
“- Charlie Oakley: I got in the habit of carrying a lot of cash with me when I was traveling.
- Mr. Green: Dangerous habit, Mr. Oakley.
- Charlie Oakley: Never lost a penny in my life, Mr. Green. I guess Heaven takes care of fools and scoundrels.”“Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.”
“The ones that say they don't want anything always get more in the end.”
“Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?”
“What's the use of looking backward? What's the use of looking ahead? Today's the thing - that's my philosophy. Today.”
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