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They are actually policemen interested in Uncle Charlie, but why? Could he have something to do with crimes around the country? The more curious Charlie gets about her dear uncle, the more reasons she discovers to be wary, to be afraid. As it turns out, Jack and Fred are not who they claim to be. When Jack Graham (Macdonald Carey) and Fred Saunders (Wallace Ford) show up claiming to be newspaper men interested in doing a write up on the Newton family, Uncle Charlie demands not to be included, not to be photographed. He watches people, studying them the way scientists study specimens they are about to stick on a board or maybe slice open. He’s a good-natured sort, all smiles and presents and wonderful, worldly stories. She will get all she cares to when Uncle Charlie shows up. It’s all terribly prosaic, all terribly boring.

Mom Emma (Patricia Collinge) works way, way, way too hard and has no energy left for enjoyment. Dad Joseph (Henry Travers) is a respectable businessman whose only outlet for enjoyment seems to be reading salacious mystery magazines and talking about how to really kill people with his coworker and pal Herbie Hawkins (Hume Cronyn). Youngest child Roger (Charles Bares) is too naval gazing, too young.

Isn’t that swell? The family could use a swift kick in the excitement pants.Ĭharlie’s younger sister Ann Newton (Edna May Wonacott) is too cerebral, too lost in her books to know what fun was if it came up and bit her. Good old Uncle Charlie’s coming to visit the family, and he wants to stay with them awhile. So, she decides to send a telegram to the uncle she was named after, her mother’s brother Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten), when lo and behold, there’s already a telegram waiting from that same party. Poop Happens: Stephe… on ‘Cuz Inside You’re…īored with her nice, domestic homelife with snooze worthy parents, Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) yearns for adventure.

Poop Happens: Stephe… on Cold Case Warming Up: Stephen… If Man is the Father… on Gotta Get Out of Here: Summer… The Forevering: Perp… on Did You Catch It: Night’… The Forevering: Perp… on Praise Raatma (and Pass the Ca… A Literary Mystery: Dann McDorman’s West Heart Kill.

“How Is This My Life?” Get My Gun (2017).

Witnessing Wrong Things and Asking Right Questions: Kate Alice Marshall’s Thirteens.

Main characters in shadow of a doubt book