Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Teresa Wright: Charlie Newton

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• Uncle Charlie : The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking their money, eating their money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.

  Young Charlie : But they're alive. They're human beings.

  Uncle Charlie : Are they? Are they, Charlie? Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?

• Young Charlie : Oh, what's the matter with you two? Do you always have to talk about killing people?

  Joseph Newton : We're not talking about killing people. Herb's talking about killing me and I'm talking about killing him.

  Emma Newton : It's your father's way of relaxing.

  Young Charlie : Can't he find some other way to relax?

• Young Charlie : Go away, I'm warning you. Go away or I'll kill you myself. See... that's the way I feel about you.

• Young Charlie : He thought the world was a horrible place. He couldn't have been very happy, ever. He didn't trust people. Seemed to hate them. He hated the whole world. You know, he said people like us had no idea what the world was really like.

• Young Charlie : We just sort of go along and nothing happens. We're in a terrible rut. It's been on my mind for months. What's gonna be our future?

  Joseph Newton : Oh, come now, Charlie. Things aren't as bad as that. The bank gave me a raise last January.

  Young Charlie : Money? How can you talk about money when I'm talking about souls? We eat and sleep and that's about all. We don't even have any real conversations. We just talk.

• [to the telegraph operator] 

  Young Charlie : Mrs. Henderson, do you believe in telepathy?

  Mrs. Henderson : Well, I ought to. That's my business.

  Young Charlie : Oh, not telegraphy. Mental telepathy. Like, well, suppose you have a thought, and suppose the thought's about someone you're in tune with, and then across thousands of miles, that person knows what you're thinking about and answers you, and it's all mental.

  Mrs. Henderson : I don't know what you're talking about. I only send telegrams the normal way.

• Uncle Charlie : How was church, Charlie? Did you count the house? Turn anybody away?

  Young Charlie : No. Room enough for everyone.

  Uncle Charlie : Well, I'm glad to hear that. The show's been running such a long time, I thought maybe attendance might be falling off.

• [Uncle Charlie visits the bank] 

  Uncle Charlie : Hello, Joe. Can you stop embezzling a minute and give me your attention?

  Joseph Newton : Oh, uh, Charles, we don't joke about such things here.

  Uncle Charlie : Aw, what's a little shortage in the books at the end of the month? Any good bank clerk can cover up a little shortage. Isn't that right, Charlie?

  Young Charlie : Uncle Charlie, you're awful. Everyone can hear you.

  Uncle Charlie : Good thing they can. We all know what banks are. Look all right to an outsider, but no one knows what goes on when the doors are locked. Can't fool me, though.

• Young Charlie : What time does the library close?

  Ann Newton : If you'd read as much as you should, you'd know it closes at nine.

• Young Charlie : We're not just an uncle and a niece. It's something else. I know you. I know you don't tell people a lot of things. I don't either. I have a feeling that inside you there's something nobody knows about.

  Uncle Charlie : Something - nobody knows?

  Young Charlie : Something secret and wonderful. I'll find it out.

  Uncle Charlie : It's not good to find out too much, Charlie.

• Young Charlie : Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.

• Jack Graham : Charlie, think. How much do you know about your uncle?

  Young Charlie Newton : Why, he's my mother's brother.

• Young Charlie : Your picking us as an average family kind of gave me a funny feeling.

  Jack Graham : What kind of a funny feeling?

  Young Charlie : Oh, I don't know. I guess I don't like to be an average girl in an average family.

  Jack Graham : Average families are the best. Look at me. I'm from an average family.

  Young Charlie : As average as ours?

  Jack Graham : Sure. Besides, I don't think you're average.

• Young Charlie : You better go to sleep, baby. You said your prayers?

  Ann Newton : I forgot.

  Young Charlie : You better say them.

  Ann Newton : I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...

  Young Charlie : Don't bless too many people. It's late.

  Ann Newton : I pray the Lord my soul to take. God bless Mama, Papa, Captain Midnight, Veronica Lake, and the President of the United States...

  Young Charlie : You can't say them all tonight, dear.

  Ann Newton : Oh, and Uncle Charlie. Amen.

• Jack Graham : I like it when you laugh - and I like it when you don't. I guess I like you whatever you do. I guess I like you.

  Young Charlie : Oh, I'm glad. I like you too.

  Young Charlie : Funny how you happen to meet someone and like them and - like them.

• Young Charlie : I don't want anything. Right now, I have enough. Before you came, I didn't think I had anything, but now I don't want another thing.

• Young Charlie : Oh, I don't believe in good intentions any more. All I'm waiting for now is a miracle.

• Young Charlie : Poor Mother. She works like a dog. Just like a dog.

  Joseph Newton : Where is she?

  Young Charlie : She's out. When she comes back, it'll be the same thing. Dinner, then dishes, then bed. I don't see how she stands it.

• Jack Graham : You've got to trust me.

  Young Charlie : When you've done nothing but lie? And you probably didn't want to take me out at all tonight the way I thought you did.

• Young Charlie : You shouldn't tease Papa like that.

  Uncle Charlie : I wasn't teasing him. I just hate this stuffy atmosphere.