![]() 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. Talking to the Hand:… on MOVIE MONDAYS: HEREDITARYīored with her nice, domestic homelife with snooze worthy parents, Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) yearns for adventure. Talking to the Hand:… on Hurricane Party With a Twist:… Liam Ostermann on Let the Dead Bury Their Dead:… Hearing Strange Soun… on MOVIE MONDAYS: TRAIN TO B…ĭanielRobichaud on Let the Dead Bury Their Dead:… Don’t Mess With Mama Bear … Err, Mama Prehistoric Monster: Gorgo (1961).Not Just the Tale, but He Who Tells It: Stephen King’s Finders Keepers.Hearing Strange Sounds: Contorted (2022).A Sad and Eye-Opening Thing: John Boden’s Jedi Summer.
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