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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