The Window (1949)

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can’t get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers – who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

• abandoned building
• boy who cried wolf
• chase
• child in peril
• film noir
• fire escape
• home alone
• incredulous parents
• menace
• murder
• murder witness
• murderer
• new york city
• parent child relationship
• police
• police station
• rooftop
• tenement