Review of The Woman in the Window (1944) by Shounak B — 03 Mar 2013

Though scope of this film has much lesser than the other of Fritz Lang, it strikes at the right point, a close character study under the influence of middle class conscience and mentality. This one started those trend of crime film having nourish characteristics, and here the 'femme fatale' is so much compelling that the protagonist whose only disturbances in his character (as 'noir' film says) is his mid life crisis and makes him forced to do the crime, a murder as self-defense.

Then the detailed analysis of get riddance of that crime is done impressively but almost all the intensity of the film comes in vain at the final sequence what is as unpredictable as stupid.