Certainly he is hero worshipped by his niece, and yet she alone learns his true nature and ultimately (accidentally) causes his death. It’s unusual in having a central villain who is almost the hero. Hitchcock often said this was his favourite film – and certainly the one he found easiest to defend from his critics, in that it had the most plausible senario. He might look alright and have a voice that charms, but he is the devil in disguise. In the first scene a train enters the station, filling it with black smoke – and from the first it is clear that all is not right with Uncle Charlie.
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