Shadow of a Doubt is a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in 1943. The film is about a normal family, named the Newtons, who live in Santa Rosa, California. They receive an unexpected telegram announcing 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 write a telegram for her Uncle Charlie, she discovered that he had already sent one himself to inform her that he was coming to town. Shortly after Uncle Charlie arrives, things go from happy to suspicious and finally dark. Two men show up and claim to want to inspect the family and take photos. The mother agrees to let them into the house to watch them; They don't know that these two men are undercover. Uncle Charlie finds out about this and does everything he can to convince the family that they shouldn't let strangers into the house. A “surveyor” takes a photo of Uncle Charlie and he furiously demands the film. The "surveyor" returns the film to him, but Uncle Charlie doesn't know that the film returned to him was a different film and they know they have a photo of their suspect. Later that night, Jack Graham, the surveyor, takes Charlie outside 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 the Merry Widow Killer's two witnesses. Charlie begins to put the pieces together and realizes that his uncle is the Widow 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 him realize that he is a middle of... .. paper ......g white and black lighting shows good and evil. The dark is Uncle Charlie and the light is Charlie, which is the essence of a film noir. My expectations for film noir were met in this film because of the setting, the interesting thriller/mystery plot, and I thought Alfred Hitchcock did a great job with the lighting and the way the film was shot. 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 the plot and that Uncle Charlie was the Widow Killer, I expected to see scenes of him murdering 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 into an oncoming train, but no blood or bodies are shown, unlike today's films where he can there will be tons of blood..