"THE SUSPENSE SHOCK OF THE YEAR!"
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Social & External
The people behind it
Barbara Stanwyck
Cheryl Draper
George Sanders
Albert Richter
Gary Merrill
Police Lt. Lawrence Mathews
Jesse White
Police Sgt. Eddie Vincent
Harry Shannon
Captain Donnelly
Claire Carleton
May - Mental Patient
Lewis Martin
Psychiatrist
Dick Elliott
Apartment Manager
Harry Tyler
Charlie
Juanita Moore
Negress - Mental Patient
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
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