Teresa Wright stars as a young woman who slowly realizes her charming uncle Charlie is really a psychotic killer. Deeply creepy and hypnotic at the same time. The funniest Hitchcock film. This is also the first time that composer Bernard Herrmann, who went on to write the unforgettable Psycho score, worked for the master. A peculiar plot in which Tippi Hedren plays a cold-blooded career thief whose employer, Sean Connery, essentially blackmails her into marrying him.
Complex undercurrents abound.
Hitchcock's penultimate film is a look at a man accused of strangling women in London. Margaret A. McGurk is Enquirer film critic. For the latest movie reviews see GoCinci. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.