Shadow of a doubt - 1943

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which is saying a lot already!! Not his best film, but still a good one!
The scene of the river at the beginning reminded me of Vertigo!  There's a lot of music, but this kind of old films probably needed it, since everything went on so slowly.
The story is: the Newton family is a good, normal family, and daughter Charlie (Teresa Wright) lives in adoration of the figure of her uncle Charlie, her mother's brother, who actually is secretly a criminal. One day uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) comes to visit them, and she's so happy! But starts to notice odd things, and when the police get interested in him she understands what he is but don't want to make her mother sad with the revelation, so she keeps it to herself. But things are not so easy, because she worries him, and now he sees her as a threat.... but good always wins against evil, right? That's what I like about movies.Not like real life at all.
I like the bit when the father doesn't want to put the hat on the bad because, he says, he's not superstitious "but I don't believe in inviting trouble" ! Great. Also when they talk about the 'good old times', it seems a conversation you could hear now 'the world was different, kids were happy then'... Funny how Joe (Henry Travers) and his friend Herbie (Hume Cronyn) talk about crimes, and how they would go about killing each other :-)  and the scene when Mr.Graham wants to have a walk with Charlie and asks her mother if she can show him the city, and the mother isn't too happy about sending her daughter with a man, and tries to have her younger daughter Ann to go with him! Ah, the old times, when it didn't seem at all dangerous to leave a little girl alone with a stranger man, since she was not yet at a marriage-age! Now it would be much worse!
Of course today the whole film wouldn't be possible, because in this story, they know they are looking for a certain kind of man but have no idea of his face, and in fact Charlie says that he has never had a picture of himself taken! Quite impossible nowadays, where everyone has a camera in their pocket, what with all these phones being better at taking pictures than at calling!