

Widow' murderer, who takes refuge with the small-town family of his sister (Collinge).įocusing on adoring niece Wright's dawning realisation that her kind, generousĪnd handsome uncle is in fact a cold and cynical killer, the film is not only One of Hitchcock's finest films of the '40s, with Cotten as the infamous 'Merry Is inescapable: her beloved Uncle Charlie is a mass murderer, preying upon THE MERRY WIDOW MURDERER? As the horrified Charlie reads on, the conclusion Library, Young Charlie locates the missing item: the headline screams WHO IS Uncle Charlie torn an article out of the evening newspaper? Rushing to the Unsettling, especially when he brings up the subject of rich widows, whom heĬharacterizes as "swine." When a pair of detectives (MacDonald Carey and Wallaceįord), posing as magazine writers, arrive in town and begin asking questionsĪbout Uncle Charlie, young Charlie's curiosity is aroused.

Uncle Charlie is his usual charming self, but he seems a bit When young Charlie "wills" that old Charlie pay a visit to her family, her wishĬomes true. Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic
