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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616081070
Format: Black & White, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 8209
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 1944
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 07/10/2007 Run time: 99 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com:
Fritz Lang did his best work in Hollywood throughout the 1940s, and The Woman in the Window ranks among his best films from that period. Equally adept at crafting first-rate Westerns and melodramatic thrillers, Lang returned to the latter category for The Woman in the Window, a deliciously devious follow-up to 1944's Ministry of Fear and a near-perfect companion piece to Lang's 1945 follow-up, Scarlet Street. Adapted by producer/screenwriter Nunnally Johnson from J.H. Wallis's novel Once Off Guard, this briskly paced and brilliantly plotted thriller begins with a chance encounter between mild-mannered psychology professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) and Alice Reed (Joan Bennett), the stylishly alluring subject of a portrait that Wanley has dreamily admired in a window near the men's club where he socializes with a savvy District Attorney (Raymond Massey) and a friendly physician (Edmund Breon). When Alice invites Wanley to her apartment for casual drinks and conversation, Wanley is forced to kill an intruder, and his subsequent cover-up leads to a nail-biting plot in which Wanley must feign innocence as he 'innocently' participates in the D.A.'s investigation with a homicide detective.
Lang was an expert at turning the screws of suspense, and while Johnson's screenplay tempers its convenient coincidences with well-written characters, Robinson's increasing desperation is the engine that drives the plot. When a sleazy blackmailer (Dan Duryea) squeezes Wanley and Reed for every penny they've got, The Woman in the Window winds up to a fever pitch, with a 'twist' ending that's either a cop-out or clever, depending on your tolerance for now-familiar surprises. As renowned critic Pauline Kael astutely noted, The Woman in the Window has 'the logic and plausibility of a nightmare,' and Lang surely enjoyed the superbly cast trio of Robinson, Bennett, and Duryea, for he invited them back for Scarlet Street just a few months later. And speaking of murder, check out the kid playing Robinson's son in one of the opening scenes: that's future real-life murder-conspiracy suspect Bobby (Robert) Blake (subsequently acquitted), at the innocent age of 10. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Classic Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang directed some great films in Hollywood during the 1940s and The Woman in the Window is one of them. A professor's (Edward G. Robinson) chance encounter with a beautiful model (Joan Bennett) turns into a nightmare of nail-biting suspense. In a crazy turn of events, the mild-mannered Robinson kills Bennett's boyfriend in self-defense. What should Robinson and Bennett do next is the question. The course they choose propels this melodrama and hooks the viewer from the start. You find ... Read More
Rating: - A Film With A Twist !
Edward G. Robinson does a fine job as the unassuming character in this film. Joan Bennett is a treat for the eyes ! A film that will hold you until the end.
Rating:  - masterpiece that rivals Hitchcock
this rare gem of a film rivals Hitchcock in suspense. i urge anyone who hasn't seen this film not to read any reviews before viewing it. don't cheat yourself out of a great viewing experience.
i have been collecting classic films for years, first on video than dvd and i have never seen this great movie. the only movie that possibly comes close to the mind blowing experience this one does is "Beyond A Reasonable Doubt" which was released in 1956, 12 years after this one.
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Rating:  - Even Fritz Lang can make a stinker
As far as films noir go, this one blows. Contrived garbage. See 'Scarlett Street' for fritz best work in this style. 'm' as well.
Rating: - Enjoyable Murder Drama that Launched Dan Duryea's Face-Slapping Career.
"The Woman in the Window" is an enjoyable, suspenseful murder drama, as they were called at the time, that is also notable for launching Dan Duryea's string of "sadistic dandy" roles, upon which he built a lucrative career in the 1940s. Middle-aged professor Richard Wanley (Edmund G. Robinson) admires a portrait of a comely young woman in a shop window before meeting some friends at his club. After joking about the perils of adventure in middle age, Wanley is pleasantly surprised to run into the ... Read More
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