When G-Men come to search him out, he escapes, making a bee line to the West Coast, to reconnect with his family. The scene would be incredibly bleak if not for the fact that this man is played by the handsome and universally-loved Joseph Cotten. His de facto casket is surrounded by loose money and half-drank glasses of booze. We meet him in Philadelphia, down and out, laying on a bed in a beaten up hotel room, dressed completely in suit and wingtips. Uncle Charlie is very much in the mold of a Hitchcock killer. This is a story that hinges on two different Charlies, of two different sexes, one named after the other. Hitchcock gives America a peek into the most covert, intelligent, and dangerous creature roaming the country: the common teenager. But he also mines sociology, striking on something that would not be explored in pop culture until Rebel Without A Cause. Sure, there’s suspense and murder and great camera work and editing. It’s Hitchcock’s favorite film, which is funny since it contains few of the trappings of a typical “Hitchockian” movie. Enter Shadow of a Doubt, the 1943 film set in the Californian suburban sprawl. We have a rather definitive view of what an Alfred Hitchcock film should be: tense, filled with intrigue, murder, and suspense, probably involving a train, possibly involving a case of mistaken identity, and the very rare battle over a national monument.
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