Thicker than water

Shadow of a Doubt

(1943)

Hitchcock's favorite Hitchcock film is not mine, but I certainly have a much fuller appreciation of it--and of Teresa Wright, who is not the callow little simp I remembered--this time around than the last. Unusual maintenance of suspense in a context where you can't be altogether certain of what you're in suspense of.

Wonderfully fey performance by Hume Cronyn, whose persistent uninvited appearances in the Newton household have a useful payoff.