They're all a bit gossipy, but that's small town for you. Pa and his creepy neighbor (Hitchcock's friend Hume Cronyn) have a hobby of dissecting mystery novels and trying to improve the ways of knocking people off. While the Newton family isn't " the Addams Family," they're not exactly the Cleavers (er, bad choice of name) either. The dark joke here is just how easily Uncle Charlie fits into the gentle Santa Rosa domicile.
But Hitchcock, with his Wilder inspiration during the war days, turned over enough earth in that regard to last a generation. Forty years later, David Lynch would stake his own plot in this territory. The story of a mentally cracked serial killer who decides to take a cooling-off sabbatical with his Sister's family is a weird tale of family secrets and intuition and of the insinuation of the macabre and the terrible that moves like a black cloud over halcyon small town American life. Which is why his 1943 collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock was a match made in.well, I'm not sure where it was made, but it can't be anywhere pretty, that's for sure. Anyone who's seen his stage-plays will tell you that.
The Story: Thornton Wilder could be pretty dark.
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