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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.
A 9-year-old boy witnesses a murder on the fire escape but no one believes him. The Window is a classic B noir film directed by Ted Tetzlaff and starring Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy.
- (4.9K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
- Ted Tetzlaff
- 1949-05-21
Window, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You've Had A Bad Dream Camped out on the fire escape where it's cooler, one floor above his family's apartment, Tommy (Bobby Driscoll) sees the Kellersons (Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman) commit the crime, his mom (Barbara Hale) not buying it, in The Window, 1949.
A 9-year-old boy witnesses a murder through his neighbors' window, but no one believes him. He tries to escape from his parents and the killers who want to silence him.
A thriller about a boy who witnesses a murder and no one believes him. The killers are after him and he has to escape from his apartment in New York City.
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- Bobby Driscoll
- Ted Tetzlaff
- RKO Radio Pictures
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Possibly 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 over-imaginative Tommy Woodry (Bobby Driscoll) sleeps out on the fire escape of his grimy ...
