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The Face at the Window

  • 19391939
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 5m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
486
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The Face at the Window (1939)
  • Drama
  • Horror
Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
486
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  • Director
    • George King
  • Writers
    • Brooke Warren(based on the play by)
    • A.R. Rawlinson(scenario and dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Tod Slaughter
    • John Warwick
    • Aubrey Mallalieu
Top credits
  • Director
    • George King
  • Writers
    • Brooke Warren(based on the play by)
    • A.R. Rawlinson(scenario and dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Tod Slaughter
    • John Warwick
    • Aubrey Mallalieu
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 22User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Tod Slaughter and Marjorie Taylor in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Harry Terry in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter and Marjorie Taylor in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter and Marjorie Taylor in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Marjorie Taylor and John Warwick in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter and Harry Terry in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Robert Adair, Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, Harry Terry, and John Warwick in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, and Harry Terry in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, and Harry Terry in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter, Harry Terry, and John Warwick in The Face at the Window (1939)
    Tod Slaughter and Marjorie Taylor in The Face at the Window (1939)

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    Tod Slaughter
    Tod Slaughter
    • Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
    John Warwick
    • Lucien Cortier
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    • M. de Brisson
    Marjorie Taylor
    • Cecile de Brisson
    Robert Adair
    • Police Inspector Gouffert
    Wallace Evennett
    • Prof. Le Blanc
    • (as Wallace Evenett)
    Leonard Henry
    • Gaston
    Kay Lewis
    Kay Lewis
    • Babette
    Bill Shine
    Bill Shine
    • Pierre
    • (as Billy Shine)
    Margaret Yarde
    • La Pinan
    Harry Terry
    Harry Terry
    • The Face at the Window
    • Director
      • George King
    • Writers
      • Brooke Warren(based on the play by)
      • A.R. Rawlinson(scenario and dialogue)
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    • Trivia
      One of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in "Motion Picture Herald", 4/4/1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-46. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast.
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      Featured in Doom Asylum (1987)

    User reviews22

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    A marvelous compendium of mayhem-- aha, haha, hahahahahaha!
    Though you often read about the "quota quickies" made in Britain under a law that required a certain amount of screen time to be allotted to local product, you don't see many of them in America-- and for good reason: most were cranked out cheaply just to comply with the law, and are awful. In a few cases, however, the quota quickie laws provided opportunity for Britain's seemingly bottomless reserve of superior stage actors to be preserved on film-- that's why we have them to thank for Arthur Wontner's very fine Sherlock Holmes in some (not nearly as fine) Holmes movies, and it's also why we have a healthy collection of films starring the splendid ham Tod Slaughter, who toured for years as a ripsnorting baddie in authentic Victorian melodramas (such as Sweeney Todd) and transferred a number of them with minimal alteration to film. The Face at the Window is reportedly the highest-budgeted of Slaughter's films, and thus probably isn't technically a quota quickie at all, but it's still brought to the screen with the smell of fresh greasepaint straight from the provinces-- specifically the provinces circa 1895. Slaughter's larger than life performances give us as good a picture of what Victorian audiences ate up as the D'Oyly Carte company did of Gilbert and Sullivan's productions, because like them he was less reviving the old melodramas than carrying on their tradition intact. You may think you've seen people doing the Snidely Whiplash-style villain, and don't need to see them again, but you haven't lived until you've seen a seemingly sane and proper Slaughter dissolve in maniacal glee-- a-ha, ahahaha, ahahahahahahahahaha!
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    • Aug 9, 2002

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    • Release date
      • October 23, 1940 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Um Vulto na Janela
    • Filming locations
      • British Lion Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • George King Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 5 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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