What 1943 Hitchcock film stars Teresa Wright as a young woman who suspects her uncle is a murderer?

The 1943 Hitchcock film in which Teresa Wright plays a young woman who suspects her uncle is a murderer is Shadow of a Doubt.

Wright plays Charlie Newton, a teenager who is thrilled when her favorite uncle, Charlie Oakley, visits her California family. Her admiration changes when she begins connecting him to a series of wealthy widows murdered by a serial killer known as the Merry Widow Murderer.

Joseph Cotten plays Uncle Charlie, whose polished charm and menacing worldview make him one of Hitchcock’s most unsettling villains. The film’s tension comes from the clash between an apparently ordinary family home and the possibility that evil has entered it through a beloved relative.

Shadow of a Doubt was Hitchcock’s first film made in the United States that he personally considered one of his strongest works. It is often described as both a psychological thriller and film noir, and its small-town setting helped make the danger feel especially intimate.