Widely regarded as a "model" B-movie thriller, The Window stars
Bobby Driscoll as a young boy prone to fibs. Thus, no one believes him when he claims to have seen a murder in a neighboring apartment. No one, that is, except the killers (
Paul Stewart and
Ruth Roman). Realizing he won't get any help from his parents (
Barbara Hale and
Arthur Kennedy) or the law, the boy must figure out a way to save himself from being shut up permanently by the murderers. The film's hair-rising and oft-imitated climax, which takes place in a rotting abandoned tenement, has lost none of its edge over the past five decades. A much-needed hit for financially strapped RKO Radio Pictures, The Window was remade in 1960 as
The Boy Cried Murder. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide