…d drawl, he sets us up with the idea that he will fit comfortably within his stereotype once again. As the film goes on, we see that clean-cut act fade as Stewart strips away his usual tendencies and becomes something else: a wounded man with strong sexual desires willing to manipulate women to fulfill his fetishes. It is an excellent performance in Stewart’s career, probably his greatest. More than just expressing his own insecurities, Hitchcock uses Stewart to suggest an underlying terr…
C.W. Spoerry