The Window

The Window

1949 · 73 min · EN · 7.0 (51 votes)
Dir. Ted Tetzlaff · Starring Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Richard Benedict · Music Roy Webb

Through the Window He Saw it...but no one would believe him...no one except the Killers!

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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.

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A suffocating, paranoia-fueled descent into urban dread. The film masterfully builds tension through a child's lonely terror, making you question reality alongside him as danger lurks just out of sight.

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