Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
- small town
- california
- library
- widow
- bank
- detective
- telegram
- housewife
- film noir
- incest overtones
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Teresa Wright
Young Charlie
Joseph Cotten
Uncle Charlie
Macdonald Carey
Jack Graham
Henry Travers
Joseph Newton
- Patricia Collinge — Emma Newton
- Hume Cronyn — Herbie Hawkins
- Wallace Ford — Fred Saunders
- Edna May Wonacott — Ann Newton
- Charles Bates — Roger Newton
- Irving Bacon — Station Master
- Clarence Muse — Pullman Porter
- Janet Shaw — Louise Finch
- Estelle Jewell — Catherine
- Virginia Brissac — Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
- Frances Carson — Mrs. Potter (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written
- Sally Benson, Alma Reville, Thornton Wilder
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,169 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Skirball Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
