Like Ann Newton, he read Ivanhoe, and like Uncle Charlie he had a bicycle accident when he was young. Some of the characters are named after his own family members. Indeed there are autobiographical hints here. In the town of Santa Rosa, innocence is threatened by evil, and the values of an idealised but insular town are confronted by the darker nihilistic values of a corrupt outer world.Īlfred Hitchcock is on record as saying that Shadow of a Doubt was his favourite of the movies that he made.
In the case of Shadow of a Doubt it is the presence of a murderer. It might be from bodysnatchers or a giant blob, or it might be from human agents – from warped businessmen (It’s a Wonderful Life), or Nazi infiltration (The Stranger). A twist ending regarding who the real killer was is surprising, but in a love triangle, you can almost expect anything.Small town life is a frequent subject in old movies, often mocked, often idealised, and often under threat from a whole variety of sources. Danny can use this argument again when Jamie finds there is something funny that a police officer did not respond right away when the victim was the guy's wife. Danny is still on Jamie to move up the ladder to detective on the force, but the latter remains adamant that he is content to what he is doing on the streets daily. Problem is that the man is totally off the wall and even goes so far to threaten Erin. Erin is faced with testifying for a man she helped put away for 10 years for murder, when new evidence exonerates him from the crime committed. Ethics seems to be the key theme in the episode. That plus separating from his wife gave Jbara some red meat to turn in a very solid performance. Gregory Jbara, as Garrett Moore, is really given an opportunity to act in this episode and he comes through with a wonderful performance when he is accused by Frank of ethics violations.
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