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The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" (reprinted as "Fire Escape") by Cornell Woolrich, about a lying boy who witnesses a killing but is not believed.
The Window: Directed by Ted Tetzlaff. With Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman. To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.
Named best mystery film of the year by the Mystery Writers of America, The Window (1949) is often overlooked by modern audiences. The film, an urban variation on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" theme, spins a tense, 73-minute tale about a young boy who witnesses a murder.
At the age of 9, Tommy Woodry has a reputation for telling tall tales -- the latest one being that his family is moving from Manhattan to a ranch out west. When the landlord interrupts the Woodrys at dinner to show their about-to-be-vacated apartment, the Woodrys tell Tommy enough is enough.
When young Tommy (Bobby Driscoll) sneaks out of his bedroom and onto the fire escape of his tenement building, he sees two neighbors, Joe (Paul Stewart) and Jean Kellerson (Ruth Roman),...
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P ossibly the only noir in which a child is silenced by a knockout punch to the head, Ted Tetzlaff’s The Window is a “boy who cried wolf” tale in which his latest wolf, which goes ignored, is the murder of a sailor by his upstairs neighbors.
The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" (reprinted as "Fire Escape") by Cornell Woolrich, about a lying boy who witnesses a killing but is not believed.
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white suspense film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" (reprinted as "Fire Escape") by Cornell Woolrich about a lying boy who suspects that his neighbors are killers.
