A thriller with Joseph Cotten and Theresa Wright. 1943. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Charlotte Newton (Theresa Wright) is called Charlie, just like her dear uncle Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten). He's her mother's brother and the young Charlie becomes very happy when she hears that he'll come for a visit.
The whole family Newton meet uncle Charlie at the train station and then they return to their home where he'll stay for a while. They're all very happy, especially young Charlie who's very, very fond of her uncle.
But when two men, saying they're reporters, arrive to the house and says that they're working on a story about a normal American family, the real trouble begins. One of the men, Jack (Macdonald Carey), tells young Charlie that they're really detectives and that they suspect uncle Charlie for being a serial killer...
This movie is often very exiting but never really so exiting that it takes you're breath away. That would be a lie to say that it does. But it's still really good and exiting enough to make you interested every second of the picture.
Joseph Cotten is good as uncle Charlie, he creates the right feeling for the movie. Theresa Wright is also good as the young Charlie. Edna May Wonacott, who plays young Charlie's little sister Ann, is what I would call; extremely irritating and a bit precocious. I find her very irritating, so it's good for me that I don't have a sister like that...
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