Rent The Window (1949)
3.8 of 5 from 56 ratings
1h 10min
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- Synopsis:
- Little Tommy Woodry (Bobby Driscoll) is a bright kid with a vivid imagination. He's always telling tall tales. Then, one night, he witnesses a brutal murder committed by his seemingly normal neighbours, the Kellersons. When Tommy tells his parents, they think it's just his over-active imagination. When he tells the police, they don't believe him either. Only the Kellersons believe Tommy. And now they're coming to get him.
- Actors:
- Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
- Directors:
- Ted Tetzlaff
- Producers:
- Frederic Ullman Jr., Dore Schary
- Writers:
- Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich
- Others:
- Frederic Knudtson
- Studio:
- Odeon
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Pantomime Stories on Film: Part 2, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, A Brief History of Film...
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Taking Steps - The Window review by CH
Made a few years before Rear Window and also from a story by Cornell Woolrich, The Window has much in common with Hitchcock's take on a murder seen across the way. Unlike his, this was filmed in New York itself and in an effective black and white, fire escape and all.. Much of the screen time is filled by Bobby Driscoll, a young boy so given to lies which others might call fantasy that nobody - parents, police - believe his claim to have witnessed neighbours topping somebody (for reasons never explained). From the beginning, it is tense, and does not let up - to the extent that one almost does not pause to ask why he is left home alone in a perilous tenement and one or two other matters.
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