![]() Resulting threesome is ridiculous, as female version of a cuckold is forced to watch the couple have sex and then join in herself. When she finally catches Ryan and the jail-bait cutie humping away in bed it turns out to be mere seduction, not a conspiracy to drive her crazy. Unfortunately, instead of thrills we get Krissy Lynn (styled as a brunette) overacting her paranoia as she imagines hubby Ryan Driller and their new babysitter Chloe Temple plotting against her. Young thriller heroines from then on owe Wright’s Charlie a tip of the hat.Title vignette from the "Pure Taboo" suggests Hitchcock but instead borrows from the classic "Gaslight" for subject matter. Still, she’s a plucky, all-American girl, and she rises to the occasion, but not without having to hold on to a terrible secret for the rest of her life. Hitchcock puts Wright through the wringer she goes from happy-go-lucky to guilty accomplice (not wanting to ruin her family’s reputation or break her mother’s heart by revealing the truth about Mother’s brother) to fearing for her life. Certainly Jack Graham, the young detective who woos Charlie, is no help.) (What goes unmentioned in this film, made during the height of World War II, is that there are hardly any young men around to play hero, so the responsibility falls to a young woman. Except that Charlie is actually the “Merry Widow” serial killer, and only his namesake niece recognizes the truth about her favorite uncle. Alfred Hitchcock’s movie starts out as a slice of picture-perfect Americana, with a nice, middle-class, Main Street family celebrating a reunion with beloved Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten). Think of what a poison pill Shadow of a Doubt must have seemed in 1943. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten Get This MovieĬharlotte “Charlie” Newton (Teresa Wright)
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