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Review: The Window (1949)

The Window (1949) Review by Montel Williams

Late-night tv sometimes throws up some high quality gems. The Window is one of them. And before you go saying ''aww! but this movie is old and in b&w, i bet it's well shit!" STOP. Take a step back. This movie is excellent.

9 year old Tommy Woodry (Bobby Driscoll) is a lying little shit. Always telling lies and making up stories. It's gotten to the point where no-one believes a word he says anymore (kinda like George Bush but anyway... ), not even his own parents.

Tommy's world is about to come crashing down around him after he is witness to a murder in the apartment above his one night. The problem is, Tommy knows the truth, no-one believe's him and to make matters worse the Kellerton family upstairs (the murderer's) find out that Tommy knows what happened and want him silenced.

I swear to god, this movie was harsh. Harsh in the sense that for a movie thats well over 50 years old now - taken in it's original form without modern day xonception - this is one violent movie. One guy gets beaten to near death then is finished off getting stabbed to death with a pair of scissors in front of a kid. The Kellerton's kidnap Tommy and in one scene Joe Kellerton (Paul Stewart) punches the little boy in the face about three times then drugs him with chlorophyl!! Another point to add, this movie is actually banned in Finland!

This is a pretty dark movie, it's very eerie and some scenes mount incredible depths of tension. The acting is superb and the camerawork doubly so.

If your a true movie fan and are happy to watch any movie no matter the age, you'll love this. It's a real treat and i'm glad i caught this one on tv. Now to track down the DVD...


Final Rating: 8/10 "Ultraviolence. 1940's style".

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0042046

Oh, just to add to this, i found a nice Noir website with some pictures from the movie. These can be found here:

http://www.eskimo.com/~noir/ftitles/window/index.shtml

Also, for trivia, how about this, Bobby Driscoll provided the voice of Peter Pan for the 1953 Disney animated classic. He also died aged 31 from drug abuse, who'd have thought it huh?

If anyone can find a place selling this on PAL VHS or R0/R1/R2/R3/R4/R5 or R6 DVD please let me know, so far i ain't diggin up any results. Wish i'd recorded it now...

moved.