![]() This is just a really excellent domestic thriller and a solid entry in Hitchcock’s filmography. But with that wound comes new, more mature happiness. Why I feel like it works so well is because it’s a bit of a loss of innocence story, with Charlie’s small, simple, contained world being ripped apart and her heart being broken. ![]() I don’t want to give away any spoilers because that would ruin the magic, but I think you get the idea of how it unfolds from there. They seem extra interested in Uncle Charlie, however, and Uncle Charlie’s odd behavior toward them tips Charlie off that something here isn’t right. Two men suddenly show up, insisting they are surveying the typical American family and want to take pictures and write an article about the Newtons. But when Uncle Charlie arrives, things start to get weird. He’s beaten her to the punch and has decided to come visit the family! She thinks it’s fate. When she goes to send him a telegram, she is surprised to find one from him already waiting for her. She greatly admires her uncle and the excitement he brings. Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright), a young woman facing the complexities of adulthood, decides that the best thing to cure her existential dread is to invite her uncle Charlie (who she is named after, played by Joseph Cotton) to visit the family. It’s a simple and exciting story (by Gordon McDonell, screenplay by Thorton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville) set in a small-feeling world. It focuses on a perfect, typical, all-American family in Santa Rosa California and the evil that lurks where they least expect it.
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