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Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Barbara Hale, Ruth Roman
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Window |
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This RKO production, based on a story by Cornell Woolrich and directed by Ted Tetzlaff, earned the Edgar Allan Poe award in 1950.
Tommy Woodry is a 9 years old boy who likes to make up stories. One night, while trying to sleep on the fire escape because of the heat, Tommy witnesses, through a window, a murder committed by the Kellersons, the couple living upstairs. Neither his father nor his mother believes him when he reports the crime to them. So, the next morning, young Tommy goes to the police station and tells his story to a detective who brings him back to his mother. Just in case, the detective visits the Kellersons's but doesn't find anything suspicious.
As Tommy persists in telling her that their neighbours are murderers, Mary Woodry brings Tommy to the Kellersons and asks him to apologize to them. Now Joe Kellerson would really like to know what the boy saw through the window. So, as Tommy must pass the next night alone in the apartment, Joe plans to frighten him and make him talk. In the company of his wife Jean, Joe takes hold of the kid and decides to get rid of him after having understood that he actually did witness the murder. Tommy escapes, is recaptured by Joe but finally manages to hide in a deserted building nearby. Joe and Jean Kellerson enter the house right after the young boy.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Window |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Criminal enemy is...
- known killer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a kid
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Unusual forms of death
- crushed
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
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