The train at the station was a type of omen implying the arrival of evil into Hitchcock said that the black smoke spewing out of His sister called him “the Baby” of the family, an ironic reference,Īs she sees him as innocent. Here, it may also imply the serpent entering the western Hitchcock loves to use trains, and employs them as phallic symbolsįor example). Its presence comes in the form of Uncle Charlie, who arrives onĪ train. Of course, you can’t fight evil by pretending that itĭoesn’t exist. These are all symbols of the attempt to maintain

Not to expose furniture that needs reupholstering, and complaining how the Mother, Emma (Patricia Collinge) is very fussy to a point of paranoia, trying But, its exaggerated “typical” American small town nature appearsįorced, as if it is trying hard to clamp down on anything nasty happening. Here, the houses are pretty, the streets are clean, and there are trees Victim, and then turns its prey into one of its own kind, in a way subvertingĮast. Non-threatening human, but is really a creature that drains life out of its Highlighting the food on which the vampire feeds. Namesake, Charlie (Teresa Wright) that “the same blood runs through our veins,” Later, Jack Graham (Macdonald Carey) asks the young Ann (Edna May Was sleeping in a coffin, waking up when the light cannot expose his dangerous The effect makes one think of a vampire who When she goes to the window and closes the blind, bathing the man in darkness, The landlady comes in saying that two men are asking for the reclining man. There is money on a piece of furniture and on the floor.

The first glimpse of Uncle Charlie (JosephĬotton), a deceptively sweet name, shows him stretched out on a bed in aĬramped rented room. The fallen nature of the urban with the Edenic life of a small town. From a religious viewpoint, the movie contrasts Movie, there is the outward corruption of the East compared with the prettyĬalifornia town of Santa Rosa. Which American literature uses as a motif in many works, most notably in The Great Gatsby, which emphasizes the The story presents an East versus West theme, The first scene has the cameraĮxpose the seediness of an urban environment. The killer’s nickname we have an ironic contrast embodied in one entity,Įmphasized by the music, of happiness and death. Other times in the film, as does the melody, and it becomes an ironic contrastĪs the news about the killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer becomes known.

Image is one of a civilized society surrounded by lively music. Over men and women dancing in turn-of-the-20 th-century clothes to The Merry Widow Waltz by Franz Lehar.

Meaning of shadow of a doubt