

Superb performance, of a subtle killer who cannot escape his dark Uniformly goodįrom The Movie Guide: "This is Hitchcock's most penetratingĪnalysis of a murderer - a masterful profile, aided by Cotten's Wife), from an original story by Gordon McDonnell. (Exteriors wereįilmed in Santa Rosa, California, which is the same part of theĬountry Hitchcock returned to for VERTIGOīy Thornton Wilder, with Sally Benson and Alma Reville (Hitchcock's This thriller, the director's personal favorite of all his films,īeautifully captures the small town WWII atmosphere. (Wright) suspects her uncle (Cotten) of having a deep, dark secret.

Gripping suspense film in the grand Hitchcock tradition.

Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates, Irving Bacon, Clarence Muse, Janet Shaw, Estelle Jewell W/Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers,
