

The original screenplay is written by playwright Thornton Wilder.This film revolves around the strange relationship between Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton (Teresa Wright) and her mysterious Uncle, Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotton), whom she was named after, and how his secret of being a strangling psychopathic murderer affected this relationship. Alfred Hitchcock sought to portray this idea through his film titled, Shadow of a Doubt, which he produced and directed in 1943.

The quiet town of Santa Rosa, California, is a prime example of an idealistic community in which many Americans in the 1940s would have considered to be a wonderful place to settle down into and raise a family.
