Edward G. Robinson stars as a happily married psychology professor whose
wife and child are away on summer vacation. After discussing with his
friends the likelihood that any man can be driven to murder, Robinson
strolls by a shop window, where stands a full-length portrait of a
beautiful woman. He turns to find the selfsame woman (Joan Bennett)
standing beside him...and before the night is over, he has killed the
woman's lover in self-defense. Thus begins weaving an increasing tangled
web involving Robinson, the woman, and a seedy blackmailer (Dan
Duryea). Based on J.H. Wallis' novel Once Off Guard, The Woman in the
Window gives us our money's worth with not one but two logical and
satisfying surprise twists at the end.
The Woman in the Window (1944), Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson stars as a happily married psychology professor whose
wife and child are away on summer vacation. After discussing with his
friends the likelihood that any man can be driven to murder, Robinson
strolls by a shop window, where stands a full-length portrait of a
beautiful woman. He turns to find the selfsame woman (Joan Bennett)
standing beside him...and before the night is over, he has killed the
woman's lover in self-defense. Thus begins weaving an increasing tangled
web involving Robinson, the woman, and a seedy blackmailer (Dan
Duryea). Based on J.H. Wallis' novel Once Off Guard, The Woman in the
Window gives us our money's worth with not one but two logical and
satisfying surprise twists at the end.
