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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.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
- Ted Tetzlaff
- 1949-05-21
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.
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), murder a ...
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- Bobby Driscoll
- Ted Tetzlaff
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
The Window (1949) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
One summer night, Tommy sleeps on the fire escape to soften the heat, and he witness the murder of a man through the window by his neighbors Joe Kellerson and his wife Jean Kellerson. Tommy runs back home and tells his parents what he saw, but they do not believe him.
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.
