Visible crew/equipment: As the car/cab pulls out in the scene where the group leaves for Uncle Charlie's speech a man is seen disappearing around the right side of the house, but no one is supposed to be there but Young Charlie.
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Plot summary
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Henry Travers, Macdonald Carey
Young Charlie Newton (Wright) not only shares a name with her favorite uncle (Cotten), but a special bond. At times she feels the charming man is the only one who understands her need to be extordinary and that she is better than the tiny town she lives in. So, when life is too dull she calls on him to visit. However, upon the arrival of two detecitves, one of whom becomes very close to young Charlie, and a series of unusual clues concerning the mysterious 'Merry Widow Murderer', her Uncle Charlie's behavior begins to change. Young Charlie starts to suspect that the man she once idiolized is not what he seems and as her world shatters, she realizes that her life may be in danger.
Big Evil
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Suggested correction: The person who disappears may be a neighbor who is going to a walk. Why is not supposed to be at night near the house? There's no sense to support that idea.
Herbie Hawkins: Well, if I was gonna kill you, I wouldn't do a dumb thing like hitting you on the head. First of all, I don't like the fingerprint angle. Of course, I could always wear gloves. Press your hands against the pipe after you were dead and make you look like a suicide. Except it don't seem hardly likely that you'd beat yourself to death with a club. I'd murder you so it didn't look like murder.
Trivia: Hitchcock's cameo comes relatively early in the film - he is playing bridge with a man and a woman on the train to Santa Rosa.
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