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The Face at the Window (1939 film)

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Plot
Cast
Critical reception
Soundtrack
References
External links

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| name = The Face at the Window
| image = FaceAtTheWindow1939.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = George King
| producer = George King
| writer = A.R. Rawlinson (scenario and dialogue)
Randall Faye (treatment)
| based on = the "Famous Melodrama", The Face at the Window by F. Brooke Warren
| narrator =
| starring = Tod Slaughter
| music = Jack Beaver
| cinematography = Hone Glendinning
| editing = Jack Harris
| studio = George King Productions
| distributor = British Lion Film Corporation (UK)
Arthur Ziehm (U.S.)
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1939|4}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
65 minutes (USA)
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
| website =
}}The Face at the Window is a 1939 British film directed by George King.^[1] It was the third film adaptation of the stage melodrama by F. Brooke Warren.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot

In Paris in 1880, a series of murders involving a grotesque face appearing at victims' windows, is attributed to a mysterious Wolf Man. After being accused of being the perpetrator, bank clerk Lucien Cortier (John Warwick) seeks to uncover the true identity of the murderer.

Cast

Tod Slaughter as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Marjorie Taylor as Cecile de Brisson
John Warwick as Lucien Cortier
Leonard Henry as Gaston, the Cook
Aubrey Mallalieu as M. de Brisson
Robert Adair as Police Inspector Gouffert
Wallace Evennett as Professor LeBlanc
Kay Lewis as Babette, the Maid
Bill Shine (actor) as Pierre, Babette's Beau
Margaret Yarde as La Pinan
Harry Terry as The Face at the Window

Critical reception

In a contemporary review, Film Weekly called the film "a vintage thriller, put over in the right, rich spirit of years ago";^[5] while more recently Britmovie praised "a sinister Tod Slaughter hamming it up marvellously." ^[2] and the Radio Times wrote, "As with any film featuring the outrageously operatic antics of early horror star Tod Slaughter, this slow, stagebound murder-mystery would be completely unwatchable without the producer-star's presence."^[4]

Soundtrack

References

1. ^http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a9bf86d
2. ^¹http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/The-Face-at-the-Window/listType/alpha
3. ^http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bbe35d077
4. ^¹http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jfm25/the-face-at-the-window
5. ^http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/467176/

External links

{{IMDb title|id=0031289|title=The Face at the Window}}
Face at the Window at BFI Screenonline

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