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IT FELL to Hollywood actor Macdonald Carey, who has died aged 81, to speak what many critics consider to be Alfred Hitchcock's credo of original sin. At the end of Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) Detective Carey has exposed the charming Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) as the Widow murderer to his niece (Teresa Wright). In reply to her remark that her uncle hated the whole world, and thought that "People like us had no idea what the world was really like", Carey says: "It's not quite as bad as that. But sometimes it needs a lot of watching. It seems to go crazy every now and then. Like your Uncle Charlie."