The high-quality suspense and jeopardy are uniquely noir: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, No Man Of Her Own, The Turning Point and The Desperate Hours. Top stars are present too: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lisabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, William Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March.
The directors are first-rank: Lewis Milestone, Mitchell Leisen, William Dieterle and William Wyler. However, her intuitive understanding is a long way from allowing the young niece to challenge her uncle, and the tense cat-and-mouse play between the two is powerfully dramatized, showing Hitchcock in his best form.The third ‘Essential’ noir collection is easily ’s best, with two genuine classics of the style plus two excellent and equally entertaining thrillers. This growing knowledge shocks her out of the warm sense of safety that she held in her small world. Subtle clues add weight to Charlie's vague doubts. Yet Charlie feels a tension-as if her double, played with razor-thin menace by the mild-mannered Joseph Cotten, has brought violence into her home as well. Uncle Charlie brings happiness into the Newton home and a special pleasure to Mother. The two are linked, psychic twins, and when Charlie goes to send for her uncle, she finds a telegram announcing his visit already waiting for her. Meanwhile, her namesake, Uncle Charlie, lies on another bed thousands of miles away in Philadelphia surrounded by discarded bills, deep in secret thoughts. Young Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) lies on her bed in Santa Rosa, California, bored with her small-town life and family. A favorite of Alfred Hitchcock himself, with an exceptional script by the playwright Thornton Wilder, SHADOW OF A DOUBT anticipates such family menace dramas as CAPE FEAR.
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