Monday, June 1, 2009

The Woman in the Window (1944)





A middle-aged college professor laments his stodgy life until he spends an evening with a beautiful woman who has a dangerous lover.

This is one of my favourite film noir classics. It starts beautifully simple, a mere chance encounter on the sidewalk, and gradually the story takes a downward spiral step by step into the abyss. Unfortunately, the studio forced a happy ending onto the plot, but that can hardly reverse the experience you just have made.

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