The Window (1949)
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Widely regarded as a "model" B-movie thriller, The Window stars Bobby Driscoll as a young boy prone to fibs. Thus, no one believes him when he claims to have seen a murder in a neighboring apartment. No one, that is, except the killers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman). Realizing he won't get any help from his parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy) or the law, the boy must figure out a way to save himself from being shut up permanently by the murderers. The film's hair-rising and oft-imitated climax, which takes place in a rotting abandoned tenement, has lost none of its edge over the past five decades. A much-needed hit for financially strapped RKO Radio Pictures, The Window was remade in 1960 as The Boy Cried Murder. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Barbara Hale, Bobby Driscoll, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ted Tetzlaff
Synopsis of The Window
Widely regarded as a "model" B-movie thriller, The Window stars Bobby Driscoll as a young boy prone to fibs. Thus, no one believes him when he claims to have seen a murder in a neighboring apartment. No one, that is, except the killers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman). Realizing he won't get any help from his parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy) or the law, the boy must figure out a way to save himself from being shut up permanently by the murderers. The film's hair-rising and oft-imitated climax, which takes place in a rotting abandoned tenement, has lost none of its edge over the past five decades. A much-needed hit for financially strapped RKO Radio Pictures, The Window was remade in 1960 as The Boy Cried Murder. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Window
- Barbara Hale - Mrs. Woodry
- Arthur Kennedy - Mr. Woodry
- Ruth Roman - Mrs. Kellerton
- Lee Phelps - Police Officer
- Carl Saxe - Police Officer
- Tex Swan - Milkman
- Budd Fine - Police Officer
- Carl Faulkner - Police Officer
- Bobby Driscoll - Tommy Woodry
- Paul Stewart - Mr. Joe Kellerton
- Ken Terrell - Man
- Richard Benedict - Drunken Seaman
- Charles Flynn - Police Officer
- Anthony Ross - Ross
- Jim Nolan - Stranger on Street
- Director(s):
- Ted Tetzlaff
- Writer(s):
- Mel Dinelli
- Producer(s):
- Frederic Ullman, Jr., Dore Schary
- 1949 - Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Best Screenplay
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