The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

  • Director: Fritz Lang
  • Writer: Nunnally Johnson,J.H. Wallis
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 3, 1944
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Once Off Guard
  • "The Woman in the Window" is a crime film directed by Friedrich Christian Anton Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson , Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey  .
    The film tells that Wanli killed a man. In order to protect his reputation, Wanli decided to bury the corpse, but soon he became suspicious, thinking that someone had discovered the corpse and the whole story, and prepared The story of blackmailing him.

    Details

    • Release date November 3, 1944
    • Filming locations New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Christie Corporation, International Pictures (I)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Rigoberto 2022-02-19 08:01:59

      The plot is average and the atmosphere is good

      Mirror, one of Lang's favorite props. Pietro in "M is the Murderer" discovers that his identity is exposed, and the beginning of "Furious", Qu Sai and Yang both long for a better life, which are closely related to the mirror in the shop window. And the heroine of the film, Joan Bennett, is a professor at New York University (Edward G. Robinson). Robinson came out for the first time when he stopped and stared at a glamorous portrait of a woman in the middle of the shop window. Faced with the...

    • By Linnea 2022-02-19 08:01:59

      A spring dream of a middle-aged man

      One thought begins, thousands of waters and mountains, one thought disappears, the vicissitudes of life, good and evil can only be in a single thought.

      Everyone begins to age gradually from the moment they are born. At the age of 20, they may have some thoughts when they see a young girl. However, after middle age, people get and don’t get it. It doesn't matter anymore, the most important thing is these small thoughts, so that they can remember when they were young. The love of beauty...

    • By Juliet 2022-02-19 08:01:59

      Double interpretation of desire

      While watching the movie, accompanied by the roar of thunderstorms outside the window, I stared nervously at Professor Wenli, who was driving on a rainy night on the screen: When passing the toll gate, I was annoyed by his sudden mistake, for fear that the toll collector would see the corpse in the back seat; At the crossroads, I met "green to red" again, and when I turned my head, I saw the policeman again, showing with a smile of "caught you"... left traces, barbed railings...

    • By Ayla 2022-02-19 08:01:59

      Director said

      This film was written by the German film master Fritz Lange in the 20th century and is an early work of film noir. As a German expressionist film director, Lange incorporated the German expressionist style into American Hollywood films: strong contrast between light and dark, unstable oblique composition, and dreams, fantasy, and symbols to express the dark side and fear of the characters in their hearts. Wait. Through a murder in a dream, this film shows the themes of reality and dreams,...

    • By Letha 2022-02-19 08:01:59

      [Film Review] The Woman in the Window (1944)

      A respectable psychology professor Richard Wanley (Robinson) sees off his wife and two kids at the train station, they are off on vacation, but as the breadwinner of the household, his teaching job excludes him from that familial bliss. Always a telling sign, when a married man is temporarily shorn of his marital trappings, which leaves a fertile ground for fancies.

      Later, he is enthralled to...

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    • By Llewellyn 2023-06-22 12:42:40

      -.Until the end, when the big dream wakes up, the entanglement and troubles of reality and non-reality are constantly changing in the image. All the solemn and deep dark tone suddenly turns into an old life fantasy and a light and absurd spiritual liberation. The tragic evolution of personal destiny to the crisis of despair and hopelessness of old age, blending with the emptiness of the soul that cannot be fulfilled. The mirror images everywhere in Alice's room may be Lang's deep reference to...

    • By Talon 2022-12-22 04:10:46

      This ending is really interesting, and it can be regarded as some inspiration for later...

    • By Gus 2022-10-29 08:44:19

      Black Stroke +1 for Blackmailer's Turning into Dead Ghost. Waking up at the end, this is just a dream... but it is precisely because this is a dream that it can explain the problem. A middle-aged man-style crisis "bound" by marriage morality, yearning for a fresh body, accidentally fascinated by beautiful women, out of principle, unable to realize it in this world, and had to dream of lust. The murder is to break such a "beautiful"...

    • By Rodger 2022-09-23 14:14:02

      The time is ten thirty in the evening. Wandering in terror in a dream. (I thought it was Conan, but it turned out to be...

    • By Tina 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      How to teach this...

    Movie plot

    Wan Li is a professor at Gotham Town University. He and his friends are fascinated by a portrait of a woman on the wall of the men’s club next door. Once, when Wan Li was walking in the street and praising the portrait, he suddenly met the woman in the portrait, so the woman invited Professor Wan Li to sit in his apartment for a while. Of course Wanli went, and there, he and the woman drank a little champagne together. At this moment,...
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    Background creation

    The great director Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, who came to Hollywood from Germany to escape Nazi persecution, made films in Hollywood that basically followed his German masterpiece "M is the Killer". This film "The Woman" "in the Window" is no exception, it is an early work of film noir. What's more interesting is that the story in this film is a story of a professor and a nightclub without girls, and such a story also appeared in...
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    Movie quotes

    • Collins: [Repeated line] It's 10:30, sir.

    • Claude Mazard: [Barges in] Who are you?

      Richard Wanley: [Stands up] My name is...

      Alice Reed: [Runs in from other room] Frank! Frank, darling, listen to me!

      Claude Mazard: I told you if you ever-

      [slaps Alice in the face]

      Richard Wanley: Stop that you fool!

      Claude Mazard: [Runs at Wanley] Fool, eh?

      [Punches Wanley]

    • Alice Reed: Well? Will you say what you've got to say and get out of here?

      Heidt: Sure. If you didn't hear it, it was on the radio tonight. Another reward for ten thousand dollars for any information leading to the arrest of the murderer of Claude Mazard. You didn't hear it?

      Alice Reed: And if I had, it wouldn't have meant one thing to me.

      Heidt: Now, if you're gonna start claiming you never knew him, you can save your breath. 'Cause I've been tailing him for months, and I've tailed him here many a time.