The Woman in the Window (1944)
1944 · Feature film · 99 min · dir. Fritz Lang
It was the look in her eyes that made him think of murder.
- Drama
- film noir
- Crime
Synopsis
Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while admiring her portrait, and ends up in her apartment for talk and a bit of champagne. Her boyfriend bursts in and misinterprets Wanley's presence, whereupon a scuffle ensues and the boyfriend gets killed. In order to protect his reputation, the professor agrees to dump the body and help cover up the killing, but becomes…
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Writer
- Nunnally Johnson
- Composer
- Arthur Lange
- Cinematography
- Milton Krasner
- Studio
- International Pictures, Christie Corporation
- Released
- 1944-10-25
- Running time
- 99 minutes
Cast & crew
Fritz Lang Director
Fred Graham
Edmund Breon
Eddy Chandler
Harry Hayden
Dorothy Peterson
Frank Mills
Frances Morris
Arthur Space
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Good Noir/Suspense · Thrgfr · 2020-04-04
Robinson switches his usual tough guy movie personality to play a meek professor who, by a bunch of unlikely circumstances, commits a murder with the help of Joan Bennett. He attempts to cover it all up but when talking to his police detective friend he keeps unintentionally incriminating himself more and more and also has to cope with a dastardly blackmailer. Surprise ending!
