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The Shadow on the Window

  • 1957
  • Approved
  • 1h 16min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.1/10
724
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John Drew Barrymore and Betty Garrett in The Shadow on the Window (1957)
Film NoirCrimeDrama

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThree young thugs rob a farmhouse, kill the owner and take his stenographer hostage but the woman's estranged husband, a police detective, starts investigating her disappearance.Three young thugs rob a farmhouse, kill the owner and take his stenographer hostage but the woman's estranged husband, a police detective, starts investigating her disappearance.Three young thugs rob a farmhouse, kill the owner and take his stenographer hostage but the woman's estranged husband, a police detective, starts investigating her disappearance.

  • Dirección
    • William Asher
  • Guionistas
    • Leo Townsend
    • David P. Harmon
    • John Hawkins
  • Elenco
    • Philip Carey
    • Betty Garrett
    • John Drew Barrymore
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.1/10
    724
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • William Asher
    • Guionistas
      • Leo Townsend
      • David P. Harmon
      • John Hawkins
    • Elenco
      • Philip Carey
      • Betty Garrett
      • John Drew Barrymore
    • 21Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 11Opiniones de los críticos
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    Philip Carey
    Philip Carey
    • Detective Sgt. Tony Atlas
    • (as Phil Carey)
    Betty Garrett
    Betty Garrett
    • Linda Atlas
    John Drew Barrymore
    John Drew Barrymore
    • Jess Reber
    • (as John Barrymore Jr.)
    Corey Allen
    Corey Allen
    • Gil Ramsey
    Gerald Sarracini
    • Joey Gomez
    Jerry Mathers
    Jerry Mathers
    • Petey Atlas
    Sam Gilman
    Sam Gilman
    • Sgt. Paul Denke
    Rusty Lane
    Rusty Lane
    • Capt. McQuade
    Ainslie Pryor
    Ainslie Pryor
    • Dr. Hodges
    Paul Picerni
    Paul Picerni
    • Bigelow
    William Leslie
    William Leslie
    • Stuart
    Doreen Woodbury
    • Molly
    Ellie Kent
    • Girl
    Dave Barry
    Dave Barry
    • Miller
    • (sin créditos)
    Nesdon Booth
    • Conway - Truck Driver
    • (sin créditos)
    Paul Bryar
    Paul Bryar
    • Bartender
    • (sin créditos)
    Don Carlos
    • Felipe
    • (sin créditos)
    Thom Carney
    Thom Carney
    • Character
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • William Asher
    • Guionistas
      • Leo Townsend
      • David P. Harmon
      • John Hawkins
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    7planktonrules

    Decent lower-budgeted suspense film

    When the film begins, a group of punks are tormenting some people at a farmhouse. Soon, they kill the old man who lives there and the lady who is visiting (Betty Garrett) is being held captive...and all this is seen by her very young son (Jerry Mathers) who has been playing outside. Naturally, the boy is traumatized and he wanders off in a catatonic haze. Eventually he's found wandering along a highway and the kid is taken to the police. The boy is recognized-- -he's the son of one of the cops! The woman, apparently, is the cop's ex-wife. Can the police figure out where the woman and these sickos are in order to rescue her?

    This is a tense and reasonably well made film. I particularly like the scene where the woman attempts an escape--it's surprisingly brutal. Well worth seeing and currently posted on YouTube.
    Poseidon-3

    "My wife is missing and my son's traumatized. Quick! Hand me a doughnut!"

    Curiosity value concerning the appearance and acting skill of Barrymore (John's son and Drew's dad) will likely draw several viewers to this minor crime drama, a sort of "Despondent Hours". Garrett, separated from her policeman hubby (Carey), takes a job steno-graphing for an elderly man with her young son in tow. When three toughs break in to rob the man, but accidentally kill him, Garrett's son (Mathers) slips into a degree of catatonia and wanders off along the highway. Eventually, Carey, Garrett's husband, is reunited with the mute boy and it's a race against time to find Garrett before the punks have their way with her or kill her. The hoods are played by Barrymore, Allen and Sarracini. Carey reacts to his estranged wife's disappearance with all the concern and terror that he might have if, say, his shirt were ironed too long and got a triangle-shaped stain on the pocket. Though impossibly big and reasonably handsome, he lets his stoicism as a police officer take too much precedence over any human emotion. Garrett (pushing forty, but playing 27 and referred to as "girl"!) does a decent enough acting job, but, in keeping with the times of the film, behaves pretty foolishly more often than not. She does try to come up with a few futile attempts at escape, though. Mathers is in over his head in his tiny part and would do much better later that year in "Leave it to Beaver" where murder wasn't a part of the storyline. Barrymore is very animated and quite handsome. He leans toward the hammy aspects of acting that so many James Dean imitators were going for at the time, but his portrayal is surprisingly polished (and this isn't exactly a strong screenplay he's dealing with!) Allen (who worked with James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause") gives the most believable and natural performance of the hoods and is very attractive in a boy-next-door way. In fact, these two "vicious criminals" do their dirty work in pullover knit sweaters and cardigans!!! They are quite a contrast to Marlon Brando in "The Wild One". The third boy is played by hulking Sarracini and he is more authentic-looking (ironically, this actor died the year this film was made from the results of a fight!!) There are so many hilariously bad bit players in the film whose dialogue and performances are side-splitting. One lady mutters that her husband doesn't like anything as much as corned beef while he is shown romancing a blonde tart in a bar. Still, the direction is surprisingly adept and there is a memorable rooftop shootout that continues into the subway which is quite impressive. A little more enthusiasm/fret from Carey might have kicked it up a notch.
    5AlsExGal

    Very claustrophobic Columbia crime drama

    I'd actually call this one a 5.5. Pete Atlas (Jerry Mathers) is playing in the yard of a house where his mother is working. He looks inside through a window and sees three young hoods fighting with the old man who lives there and sees them ultimately kill him in that fight which is part of a robbery in progress. The hoods don't know about or see the boy. Pete is traumatized by what he sees and starts wandering down the highway where he is picked up by two truckers who can see he is in shock, worry about him just walking down the middle of a busy highway, and take him to the local police department, and are then on their way.

    It so happens that Pete's dad, Tony Atlas (Philip Carey) is a detective at that police department, and wonders what has happened to his son, who refuses to speak. Because Tony and his wife Linda have been separated for eight weeks, he knows that Linda has been working part time as a stenographer, but has no idea where. And the truckers that picked up the boy and could tell him the location are long gone.

    Meanwhile, back at the house where the hoods robbed and killed the old man, they are pondering what to do with Linda, the witness they were not expecting to the murder they were not expecting. Jess (John Drew Barrymore) is the cold blooded one who outright says the only thing to do is kill her. The second mainly wants to save himself, and the third has a moral core and just does not want to kill but is afraid of Jess. So this is the very claustrophobic at times hard to watch part of the film where Jess is shocked! shocked I say! that Linda does not want to get romantic with somebody who sees her as a future murder victim.

    Meanwhile, outside the house, the entire department - led by Pete's dad - is trying to figure out where Linda is. The police procedural part is a welcome diversion from what is going on in the house with the hoods. Barrymore sure looks the part of an amoral killer. In fact he played several of them. He just doesn't really have the acting chops for the job. Jerry Mathers doesn't get a chance to do much with this role, the same year he will leap to stardom in "Leave it to Beaver".

    The standout here is Betty Garrett as the witness/hostage to the three hoods. Mainly known at that time as the comic relief in the MGM musicals of the late 40s and early 50s, she shows she can really hold her own in a drama as she tries to talk the hoods out of doing away with her, as she hopes time is on her side.
    7jotix100

    Leave it to Beaver

    This film has the feel of a TV drama made into a B film. Saw it on cable recently as a curiosity since a young Jerry Matthews was in it. The drama, directed by William Asher, was a surprise.

    The film is a police drama where a young mother, working as a free lance secretary for a farm owner, gets tangled in a break in that ends badly. Her young son, playing innocently outside watches the whole thing. What young Petey witnesses produce in his little mind a trauma that makes him run from the scene until he is found by two truckers going to market.

    The movie was a product of the era in which takes place. Betty Garrett, as Linda, is perfect for the part. Also good was Phillip Carey, an actor that never had great opportunities in films. The scene stealer is Jerry Matthews, who played Beaver in the old series.
    5Doylenf

    B-film is a time waster that loses whatever potential it had...

    SHADOW ON THE WINDOW starts out promisingly enough with JERRY MATHER witnessing a violent crime through a window, but then starts to sag as the police try to pry information from the dazed boy.

    The male lead is detective PHILIP CAREY who gives such an indifferent performance when he learns his ex-wife is being held captive by some thugs that he fails to give the rest of the story any real sense of urgency. Nor does BETTY GARRET as the captured secretary who has to contend with three foolish young thugs, one of whom is played by JOHN BARRYMORE, JR. Unofortunately, all of the capture scenes are played with low-key intensity and suffer from a poor script.

    What should have been a gripping police drama involving thugs and a victimized little boy and woman victim, is a tepid, almost amateurish attempt at suspense that produces more yawns than thrills.

    Trivia note: Best performance among the thugs comes from COREY ALLEN, who played "Buzz" in the James Dean flick, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. His chase scene provides the only real tense moments in the film.

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    • Trivia
      Phil Carey's deep voice, tall stature and sexy bearing made him one of the most ubiquitous actors in Hollywood's B-film stock company. He played occasional second leads in top-line pictures such as Calamity Jane (1953), but is perhaps best remembered for his perfectly nuanced turn on TV's "All in the Family" as an old war buddy who turns the tables on Archie Bunker's notions of masculinity by coming out as homosexual in the midst of their climactic arm wrestle.
    • Errores
      The Sargent says that Petey was found at "12th and Central", but road signs seen on film of the event show the crossroads to be Valley Blvd. at Nogales St.
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      Sgt. Paul Denke: 12th and Central.

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 6 de marzo de 1957 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitios oficiales
      • Streaming on "247 Movies" YouTube Channel
      • Streaming on "Donald P. Borchers" YouTube Channel
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • The Missing Witness
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • La Puente, California, Estados Unidos(Canfield house and surrounding citrus groves)
    • Productora
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 16 minutos
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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