Shadow of a Doubt | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

For a story helmed by Hitchcock, one would expect the twists to be less straightforward.

There's something rotten in small-town, U.S.A., and Hitchcock chose Santa Rosa, California-one of the most picturesque cities in the nation-to set his tale of a modern-day wolf in sheep's clothing.

Still reeling after having seen this film, I do not want to spoil a moment of it for anyone else. I can only tell you that it is a brilliant Alfred Hitchcock melodrama, set mainly in a leafy sunny American town -- and leave the story at that.

To save studio materials, the film has been largely made in an actual Californian town and the gain is remarkable.

As we say. it is a curtailed Hitchcock, but still recognizably the one who tops the lot in artful melodrama.