In the same way Cotton slowly descends into a darker character, Wright has a similar transformation, from naive child to realizing a hard truth about her uncle. Teresa Wright, whose character is named after her Uncle Charlie, begins the film full of excitement and youthful energy when her uncle first arrives to visit. Cotton’s descent into this darker persona is chilling and wonderfully executed. As the film progresses, we slowly see the dark side of his character, Charlie Oakley. Now in Shadow of a Doubt it’s Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotton.
In Saboteur it was Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane.
I know I’m only two films into my journey but an early trend I am seeing is Hitchcock had a knack for casting a fantastic leading pair. Good thing to because Shadow of a Doubt is way more suspenseful if you don’t know what is going to happen in the film. I have been going into these films with as little knowledge beforehand as possible. Hitchcock has said that this is his favorite film, so that is some high praise coming from the director himself! Of course, I didn’t know that when I started the film. Next up in my journey through my Alfred Hitchcock collection is Shadow of a Doubt. Charlie (Teresa Wright) gets suspicious that her uncle (Joseph Cotton) might be a murderer.
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