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\"SHADOW<\/a>Joseph Cotten<\/a> created the role of C. K. Dexter Haven in the original Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, opposite Katharine Hepburn. After the play\u2019s successful run, Cotten thought he had a shot at playing Dexter in the film version. That didn\u2019t happen, obviously, but Cotten stayed in Hollywood and we\u2019re glad he did.<\/p>\n

Cotten is perhaps most famous for his films with Orson Welles, but his best screen performance, in my opinion, is as the mysterious Uncle Charlie in the 1943 Alfred Hitchcock<\/a> classic, Shadow of a Doubt<\/a>. As the dapper and sophisticated uncle visiting his older sister\u2019s family in California, Cotten establishes himself as a menacing presence from the moment he first appears on the screen.<\/p>\n

Our first glimpse of Charles Oakley is of him laying on a bed in a boarding house, dressed in a perfectly tailored suit, smoking a cigar. The way the scene is shot and Cotten\u2019s non-verbal, acting, we\u2019re tipped off that Uncle Charlie is an unsavory sort. His face is stiff and immobile at times. His movements measured and deliberate. \"SHADOW<\/a>While the audience suspects Uncle Charlie may have a darker side, it isn\u2019t immediately obvious to his niece Charlotte \u201cCharley\u201d Newton, played by Teresa Wright<\/a>. Young Charley, as she is called, is bored with what she thinks is a pretty dull life. When she finds out that her favorite uncle is coming to visit, she\u2019s excited and happy, thinking he will snap the Newton family out of their drab existence.<\/p>\n

Uncle Charlie travels to Santa Rosa, California, by railroad. When the train arrives, the engine\u2019s smoke stack spits out the biggest, darkest cloud of smoke, casting a shadow on the small train station, another clue that this is no ordinary family visit. In the beginning, all is well. Charley loves showing off her handsome uncle who dresses like a first class passenger on a luxury ocean liner. Then, little by little, things begin to change.<\/p>\n

After dinner one evening, Uncle Charlie is seen making a house out of newspaper, ostensibly to amuse the two younger Newton children, Ann (Edna May Wonacott) and Roger (Charles Bates). It\u2019s clear to the audience that there is something in that newspaper that he doesn\u2019t want anyone to see. The children are not amused and Young Charley senses this house-made-out-of-paper game is fishy, too. Before she goes to bed, Young Charley brings a pitcher of water to her uncle. She spies the clipping that he had ripped out of the paper. She grabs it, but Uncle Charlie, who has been polishing his shoes, jumps out of his chair, his face a blank, to wrestle the article out of his niece’s hands, hurting her.<\/p>\n

When two detectives, pretending to be government employees doing a profile of an \u201caverage American family,\u201d show up asking questions, things begin to get tense. Uncle Charlie\u2019s behavior becomes darker and just plain creepy. One of the detectives, Jack Graham (Macdonald Carey) takes Young Charley on a date. He tells her that her uncle might be a killer. She doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s possible, but there is a shadow of a doubt. What was in that newspaper article that Uncle Charlie didn\u2019t want anyone to see?<\/p>\n

At the library, Charley finds the article that her uncle ripped out of the paper. It says that there are two men suspected of being the \u201cMerry- Widow Murderer,” a man back east and one out west. One of the victims has the same initials that were engraved in a ring Uncle Charlie gave her. She is now convinced her uncle is a murderer. At dinner the next day, Uncle Charlie talks about rich women, widows and all their money. The money their husbands made that they\u2019re spending \u201cfrivolously.\u201d Moments before Young Charley recounts a dream that makes it clear that she knows something about her uncle. From that moment on, the tension increases and it\u2019s clear that Uncle Charlie isn\u2019t going to let his niece get in the way of his plans: to settle down in Santa Rosa. Cotten\u2019s performance, which had hints of menace, now goes full throttle, as he warns his niece not to get in his way in so many words. The glimpses of charm that Young Charley saw earlier have vanished. Cotten\u2019s face becomes tighter, more mask-like; it\u2019s hard to know what he\u2019s thinking, but you\u2019re convinced it isn\u2019t anything good.<\/p>\n

\"SHADOW<\/a>Now with things out in the open, Uncle Charlie does his best to intimidate his niece and when that doesn\u2019t work, he tries to bump her off. He messes with the back stairs. Young Charley nearly falls down the entire flight when one of the steps breaks. Next he tries asphyxiating her in the garage with the family car running. She survives that attempt and it looks like she may have won the battle, especially when it is revealed that Uncle Charlie is leaving Santa Rosa rather suddenly.<\/p>\n

Finally Uncle Charlie is leaving town by train. Young Charley, Ann and Roger are on the train saying their good-byes. While Ann and Roger get off the train, Uncle Charlie grabs his niece. As the train starts moving, Young Charley realizes that he\u2019s going to kill her. \u201cYour hands,\u201d she shouts, as their struggle now becomes physical.<\/p>\n

Cotten is so good in\u00a0Shadow of a Doubt\u00a0that it is incredible to me that he was passed over come Oscar time. Cotten\u2019s performance is so well played that it just looked too easy, I guess. Still it\u2019s one of the great Hollywood injustices that He wasn\u2019t even nominated.Of all the evil screen villains, and there are many, Joseph Cotten\u2019s performance is one of the most chilling. Hitchcock loved exploring the theme that evil isn\u2019t always \u201cout there,\u201d but generally closer to home. Contrasted against his young innocent niece and the All-American surroundings of Santa Rosa, Uncle Charlie\u2019s evil is all the more striking.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a good screen villain, you can\u2019t do much better than Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt.<\/p>\n

Stephen Reginald is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant. A long-time amateur student of film, Reginald and host of \u201cChicago Film Club,\u201d a monthly classic movie event held in his South Loop Chicago neighborhood. Reginald also teaches adult education classes at Facets Film School in Chicago. For more information, visit Classic Movie Man<\/a> and South Loop Connection.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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