“I know a wonderful person who'll come and stir us up. Mother is out Charlie tells him, adding as she lies on her bed, her young intellect apparently unaware of any irony: “We just sort of go along and nothing happens,” she tell her father. It is the tedium of her idyllic life that troubles young Charlie. Then we see his niece Charlie in the same posture, albeit her bedroom is sunny and ladylike with flowered wallpaper. He seems uneasy and restless, and especially so when his land lady tells him that two men have come by asking for him. Before the film detours to its sunny American hometown of Santa Rosa, California, we get a glimpse of a seedier place, a cheap room for rent in Philadelphia, which here seems far from a city of brotherly love.Ĭharlie Oakley (Joseph Cotton) lies on his back staring at the ceiling, a bottle and a heap of haphazard cash strewn about. Of course, our iconic director gives us the goods on Uncle Charlie right away. And ironically it is her beloved uncle and namesake Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotton) who inspires it. Instead a just-out-of-high-school brunette, Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright), has exactly what the film’s title suggests. She carries the film as an unexpected source of duplicity, and can be a cunning and intelligent adversary” that we get later in Rear Window 1954, Vertigo 1958, North by Northwest 1959, Psycho 1960, Marnie 1964, or the sophisticated but very non-icy blonde Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Not yet present is the icy blonde, “the beautiful, sophisticated, poised woman with her an air of mystery and indirect sex appeal. Maybe because he embeds evil in such an innocent lair. See it again or for the first time to discover why Hitchcock bests them all, especially in what is purportedly his favorite film. I'll find it out.” Young Charlie to Charlie Oakley I have a feeling that inside you there's something nobody knows about. I know you don't tell people a lot of things.
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