We are watching Uncle Charlie in profile, from niece Charlie’s point of view on her uncle’s right. As he speaks he becomes more passionate, and his choice of words more shocking. As the Newton family sit at the dinner table, Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) begins to talk about widows. It wouldn’t be a Hitchcock movie if he didn’t use subjective point of view at least once. Joseph A Valentine was the cinematographer on this film, and two others for Hitchcock. This bold camera move heightens Charlie’s shock, and her feeling of being alone with her knowledge. Hitchcock has the camera start tight in on the ring then pull back, and keep pulling back, until the camera is far above the library floor. When young Charlie (Teresa Wright) reads the newspaper at the library she discovers an article that both implicates her uncle in a series of murders and offers explanation for the inscription on her ring.
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