Shadow of a Doubt is a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in 1943. The film is about an ordinary family, called Newton, who lives in Santa Rose, California. They receive an unexpected telegram that their Uncle Charlie is coming to visit them. The family is excited, especially Charlie Newton, who is the eldest daughter of the Newton family and is even named after her uncle. Coincidentally, when Charlie went to the post office to make a telegram for his Uncle Charlie, he found that he himself had already sent one saying he was coming to town. Shortly after Uncle Charlie's move, things go from joyous to suspicious and finally dark. Two men show up claiming to want to inspect the family and take photos. The mother agrees to let them enter the house to observe them; they don't know that these two men are undercover. Uncle Charlie finds out and does everything he can to convince the family not to let strangers into the house. A "surveyor" takes a photo of Uncle Charlie and furiously demands the film back. The "surveyor" returns the film to him, but Uncle Charlie doesn't know that the film he was given back was a different film and they know they have a photo of their suspect. Later that night, Jack Graham, the surveyor, takes Charlie out and reveals to her that he is a detective and that her uncle is not the wonderful man she thought he was. He is one of two witnesses to the Merry Widow's killer. Charlie begins to put the pieces together and realizes that his uncle is the widow's killer. The torn newspaper, the aggressive behavior, the engraving on the ring and his angry speech at the dinner table about how he hates rich widows and how they waste their money finally make her realize that he is a… paper medium…. ..black and white lighting shows good and evil. The darkness is Uncle Charlie and the light is Charlie, that's what a film noir is about. My expectations for film noir in this film were met thanks to the setting, interesting thriller/mystery plot, and I thought Alfred Hitchcock did a great job with the lighting and the way the film is been filmed. Since this is the first film noir I've seen, I can't speak for the other films, but I expected the film to be a little more violent. When I learned about the plot and that Uncle Charlie was the widow killer, I expected to see scenes of him killing the widows, but instead there was very little violence. The only violence was when Uncle Charlie became aggressive towards Charlie, and the ending where he is thrown onto an oncoming train, but no blood or body is shown, unlike today's movies where there can be tons of blood..