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Bourvil plays Bourvil ,that is to say the character he would play in lots of movies ,including his blockbusters "Le Corniaud" and "La Grande Vadrouille": a naive guy,not very smart ,sometimes coming from his rural Normandy,as such is the case in "Par La Fenêtre ".It's not one of his best comedies by a long shot.He portrays a painter who ,as the title reads "looks out of the window -from the outside-",and meets people having affairs.Himself is in search of his love Yvette ("we met on the same day" is the best line );he meets an Yvette lookalike (Suzy Delair as dynamic and talented as ever in a rather uninteresting part),sings a ditty called "La rumba Du Pinceau" (paintbrush rumba!)and finally finds back his only love (we could see her in the first pictures,that's the sole originality of the whole screenplay).Harmless stuff.Gilles Grangier was more skillful in the thriller genre.