MOVIE · 1944

The Woman in the Window

CrimeDramaMysteryThriller99 min

While his family is away, professor Richard Wanley stops to admire a portrait in a shop window and ends up meeting the woman herself, with disastrous consequences. Edward G. Robinson is Wanley, a middle-aged academic drawn into a killing and a rushed cover-up after an evening with Alice; Joan Bennett gives the stranger a cool, elusive poise. As the police investigate, Wanley finds himself watched by a district attorney friend (Raymond Massey) and pressed by the dead man’s bodyguard (Dan Duryea), while small clues begin to close in.