......be like if some smiling killer showed up in Dennis the Menace's neighborhood I guess. I have seen many many of Hitch's flix, but somehow this one had eluded me til I got the DVD a couple days ago. So what did I think? Few things--it Does have a couple weaknesses: Droopalong pace, Charlie's inexplicable rapid 'Key to the City' rise simply because(why? He came in on a train and had some money? what gives?), and the implausible freedom given the, ummm, survey-takers in a private home. Riggggggghttttt.....
What works? About everything else-Terry Wright's great fragile heroine, Cotton's smiling killer in a suit, the dithering Mother, 'Clarence' as the harmless helpful father, and of course fun bits by Hume Cronyn and the little bespectacled daughter. I liked that stuff.
You gotta like as well the usual Hitch trademarks-clouds of smoke billowing behind a villain, near-fatal 'accidents' in the backyard around the home, some rather nasty things more than hinted at during the movie but never stated out-right.
I have been wondering, for example, as sick as this sounds, was there an incestuous connection between the two Charlies? You def. know that Joseph Cotton harbors Very inappropriate feelings towards Young Charlie, some reviewers seem to think that this was more than just implied. There was def. a lot Wrong in that family below the surface, i know that.
Anyways--good solid flick, well done all in all.
*** outta **** or so.
What works? About everything else-Terry Wright's great fragile heroine, Cotton's smiling killer in a suit, the dithering Mother, 'Clarence' as the harmless helpful father, and of course fun bits by Hume Cronyn and the little bespectacled daughter. I liked that stuff.
You gotta like as well the usual Hitch trademarks-clouds of smoke billowing behind a villain, near-fatal 'accidents' in the backyard around the home, some rather nasty things more than hinted at during the movie but never stated out-right.
I have been wondering, for example, as sick as this sounds, was there an incestuous connection between the two Charlies? You def. know that Joseph Cotton harbors Very inappropriate feelings towards Young Charlie, some reviewers seem to think that this was more than just implied. There was def. a lot Wrong in that family below the surface, i know that.
Anyways--good solid flick, well done all in all.
*** outta **** or so.