Not For A Million Dollars! | THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944) | Movie Reaction

[@AceMoonshot]

A splendid, proper reaction. Kudos and thank you.

[@jamesharper3933]

Great film noir! Joan Bennett is also known for her portrayal as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in the classic 1960's TV show Dark Shadows.

[@TedLittle-yp7uj]

The "it was all a dream" endings can often seem like a cheat but, in this case, I think it fits the story perfectly. The theme is middle aged fantasies not actual crime.

[@henryellow]

Yup, I agree that "it was a dream" for this movie's ending is good too 👍🏻. If it was darker, the movie would have ended with the professor in the chair.

[@francoisevassy6614]

I was around 15 when my father took me to see this movie. He had been in need of Hollywood movies during the whole war and was eager to see every film he could and made us love them. It has marked my adolescence a lot. Loved it ❤️. Now I have seen a lot of Fritz Lang’s movies, I hope you will see Man Hunt, The Blue Gardenia and Ministry of Fear ! Greetings from France 🇫🇷

[@henryellow]

That's nice to hear 😊 Sure, I'll make sure they are on my list. Thanks for your suggestions! 😉

[@AlunThomas-mp5qo]

That is one of the best thrillers that I have ever seen, it moves at breakneck speed from the beginning and thruout. The first time I saw it I did not look away from the screen once, nor did my concentration waver until the very end, and also the surprise ending was a scene that made an already excellent film even better. However I knew that it would NOT end with him taking his own life for the simple reason that the Production code had expressly forbidden acts of suicide in films. When I saw the hand on the shoulder waking him up I thought that it was his friend the District Attorney had come to tell him that he knew everything.

[@henryellow]

Yes, the movie certainly is a tense one, starting from the point of murder. I did not know acts of suicide in films were forbidden back then, so I honestly thought that was the ending. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 😊

[@AlunThomas-mp5qo]

@@henryellow Thank you. I'm pleased to see that you are reviewing and appreciating these classic films. There are plenty more to see and I hope you will continue enjoying them.

[@melenatorr]

Raymond Massey is our DA friend here. A notable Canadian actor with majestic bearing and equally majestic voice. I've always loved watching him, and can recommend him as "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"; as one of the bright spots in "The Fountainhead"; and in a small but vital role in "Stairway to Heaven". For an offbeat movie, he's a major presence in "Things to Come", which is where I first saw him.

[@francoisevassy6614]

Stairway to Heaven (aka A Matter of Life and Death) is a really great British movie !

[@melenatorr]

@@francoisevassy6614 It is: done by the same team that brought us "The Red Shoes".

[@henryellow]

Nice. I'll add these movies to my list too. Thanks! 😊

[@francoisevassy6614]

@@melenatorr … And Colonel Blimp ! 😁

[@melenatorr]

@@francoisevassy6614 And Black Narcissus!

[@HuntingViolets]

Fritz Lang wanted to do this movie because of the scene where he falls asleep in the chair and wakes up in the club. The cameral pulls in on him, and crew changes the set behind him. He is wearing a tearaway suit with the other suit underneath. Robinson remains in the chair while the transformation is accomplished, and the camera pulls back out to show us the new location.

[@henryellow]

That was a great scene. I was as confused as a person waking up from a dream, wondering what was happening 😂. The transformation was executed flawlessly.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@henryellow It was wild. Such an interesting comparison/companion to _Scarlet Street,_ which I know you've also watched recently.

[@nellgwenn]

I love this movie. I saw it here on youtube for free. I did appreciate the light humorous touches especially with the Boy Scout. When I first saw it I thought it being a dream was a clever way of escaping the Hayes Code. I want to recommend a British film you may enjoy. It's a late Film Noir called Mr. Denning Drives North. It also is a fun quirky who-done-it you may enjoy. It's along the same lines as this one but no dream ending.

[@henryellow]

I'll add it to my list. Thanks for your suggestion! 😊

[@jesusfernandezgarcia9449]

As you know, there is another movie with the same protagonists but with a different plot and ending. I prefer this movie.

[@henryellow]

I know which movie you mean 😂

[@melenatorr]

I'm so happy you've been introduced to the great Edward G. Robinson by these movies and not by the wonderful "Little Caesar" and other gangster movies, which were responsible for Robinson's popular image: he had range and great intelligence as an actor, and you get to see that first hand the way you're watching his work! There are a couple of movies where Robinson has fun with his gangster image: "Brother Orchid" (which was my intro to him as an actor) and "The Whole Town's Talking". And he plays yet another lovely character in "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes". I may have found this for you already, but here's a nice TCM short on Robinson: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWXSppSGrJiXpNE

[@francoisevassy6614]

Have you seen Edward G. Robinson as the sweetest grandpa ever in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ? Greetings from France 🇫🇷

[@melenatorr]

@@francoisevassy6614 Yes I have! With Agnes Moorhead as his wife, the deceptively rigid greatest wife in the world, and Margaret O'Brien sharing chemistry with Robinson. A favorite in the family!

[@henryellow]

Well, I was first introduced to Edward G. Robinson in "Double Indemnity". It's the first time you've sent this TCM short on Robinson, but I won't check it out just yet. I should watch more of his movies first, to better appreciate it 😉 I haven't watched any of those other movies you mentioned, but I'll make sure they get on my movies list. Thanks for your suggestions 😊

[@melenatorr]

@@henryellow Yes, completely understand .... and now you have incentive (I hope!) to watch more of his great work. Warner Brothers, which was sort of the "gritty", down to earth counterpart to the more lavish MGM, gave us at least three great actors who started their climb to stardom by way of gangster movies: Robinson, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. All of them found themselves in the ditch of typecasting as gangsters and all three of them found ways to show they were so much more.

[@sheehan92]

The 2021 movie is not a version, its a different movie.