The Window (1949) on Netflix
Tommy Woodry tells tall tales, so when he sees the couple upstairs kill a sailor, his parents and the police brush him off. The Kellersons, though, believe every word.
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Plot summary
In a Lower East Side tenement, Tommy Woodry has a habit of inventing stories, so nobody takes him seriously. One night, unable to sleep, he lies on the building's fire escape and watches his upstairs neighbors, Joe and Jean Kellerson, put a drunken sailor to death in their apartment. He reports what he has seen to his mother and father and to the police, but each of them decides it is one more of his tall tales. His mother takes him to the Kellersons so he can apologize; he refuses, and the pair begin to wonder what he knows. Then his mother goes off to nurse a sick relative, and his father leaves for his night job, locking Tommy in his room to keep him out of trouble.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Window (1949)
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- When The Window was ready for release in 1948, millionaire Howard Hughes had taken over RKO and refused to release it, saying it would not make money and that Bobby Driscoll was not much of an actor. In 1949 he was persuaded to release it, and it became a critical and financial success.
- RKO mentioned Dickie Tyler, who had been in The Bells of St Marys, and Christopher Blake as possible stars of the film.
- RKO executives decided to film in Hollywood, then changed their mind and went back to New York, where filming started 10 November 1947. It was the first movie RKO had shot in that city in a long time.
