Das unheimliche Fenster (1949)
8KDas unheimliche Fenster: Directed by Ted Tetzlaff. With Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman. To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.
“The central figure of u0026#39;The Windowu0026#39; was a slum ten-year-old boy (Bobby Driscoll), living in New York poor neighborhood and known to everyone there as a teller of fantastic stories u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHis parents (Arthur Kennedy and Barbara Hale) warned him he must stop his fantasies and what followed was a classic up-dating of the boy who cried u0026#39;wolfu0026#39; once too often u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne stifling night, the boy climbed out on to a fire escape to seek cool air and, through a crack under a window blind, he witnessed a murder u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHe knew no one would believe him although this time, for the first time, his story was true He tried to tell his mother that he had seen a couple called Kellerson trying to rob a drunk and killing him in a fight: the boy got scolded for his imagination and sent to bed His father locked him in for punishment; the boy escaped and took his story to the police station. A detective investigated, but could find no body, no signs of a struggle u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNow the awful irony: the guilty Kellersons learn through the detective that the boy had seen them committing the crime, and the boyu0026#39;s parents, with terrifyingly understandable logic, send the boy to the killers to apologize u0026#39;for spreading such an awful story about themu0026#39;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Kellersons cannot decide: should they leave well alone, as nobody believes the boy; or should they commit another crime to cover the first?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026#39;The Windowu0026#39; is a classic little second feature, entertaining and suspenseful; unfortunately it had few successful imitators”
