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THE WINDOW
U.S., 1949
Directed by Ted Tetzlaff
Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich
Starring Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Approx. 73 min. 35mm.
A tall-tale-telling tenement kid’s eyewitness account of a sailor’s murder is believed by nobody but the killers themselves. From a Cornell Woolrich story, with a special Oscar® to child star Bobby Driscoll, whose body would be discovered twenty years later in the rubble of an abandoned tenement in Alphabet City. “Edgar” for Best Mystery Film of its year.
35mm print courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film