The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)





Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?


Books with substantial mentioning of The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Deborah Lazaroff Alpi
Robert Siodmak, A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Film Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1998

Books with an entry on The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Articles on The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

Guy Maddin, Family Function, in: Filmcomment, nr. 4 (July/August), 2005 pp. 8