76. JOSEPH COTTEN
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

What if that relative you adored while growing up turned out to be a serial killer? Alfred Hitchcock's actors were always underrated by the Academy, and Cotten's work as ''Uncle Charlie,'' the widow-slayer at the dark heart of his study in the banality of evil, was no exception. Cotten makes the man's descent from charmer to madman to would-be niece-murderer as unsettling as a visit to Hannibal Lecter's kitchen.

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