Instead, he’s hiding away from his pursuers. Her solution is to telegram her wealthy, adventurous Uncle Charlie, who is coincidentally already on his way to their home – but not to enliven their tedium. In Santa Rosa, young Charlie (Teresa Wright) is in a rut and severely depressed, worried about money issues for the family, her bank clerk father Joseph (Henry Travers), her overworked mother Emma (Patricia Collinge), and the general lack of excitement in their lives. But he slips past the men and sends a telegram to the Newton household in Santa Rosa, California – containing the only relatives he has in the world, and a great residence in which to hole up. Just outside waits a couple of persistent men who are clearly interested in catching up with Spencer – for some sinister purpose. Charles Spencer Oakley (Joseph Cotten) reclines, fully dressed, on a bed in a small apartment, with wads of cash spilling from a nightstand onto the floor. "You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood.R. "Hitchcock's discovery of darkness within the heart of small-town America remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader But Shadow, from beginning to end, is a surpassingly better picture." - TIME Staff, TIME Magazine "This Hitchcock masterpiece has the same general theme as his Suspicion - the slow, terrible growth of fear of a loved one. "Shadow of a Doubt may or may not be Hitchcock's greatest film, but it's his most intimate and heart-wrenching." - David Denby, New Yorker "Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader "One of Hitchcock's finest films of the '40s." - Geoff Andrew, Time Out Starring:Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey He seems to be a good man on the surface, however, secrets about him soon become revealed to his niece and she will need to make choices that could end up destroying the whole family. This is about the relationship between Uncle Charlie and his niece.
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