{"id":17494,"date":"2025-05-10T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17494"},"modified":"2025-05-09T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:14:00","slug":"woman-in-the-window-1945-fritz-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17494","title":{"rendered":"Woman in the Window (1945, Fritz Lang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward G is a murder professor, and while his family vacations without him, he&#8217;s invited out by titular woman Joan Bennett who likes how he gazed at her painting, then he kills her ex-bf in self-defense when the guy barges in.  Having studied murders extensively, Ed knows to go home for his car then return to hide the body.  The girl doesn&#8217;t know his name and he plans to disappear from her life, but his huge face gets published in the newspaper due to a job promotion, then she looks him up, followed by the dead guy&#8217;s blackmailer buddy Dan Duryea, completing the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/162\">Scarlet Street<\/a><\/em> cast.<\/p>\n<p><em>L-R: woman, window<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/window1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The recent Amy Adams movie with the same title is a trauma-remake of <em>Rear Window<\/em>, not of this &#8211; and studying crimes while covering up having committed crimes makes this the original <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17360\">Juror #2<\/a>.  Some sweet camera moves, the movie works when Joan is around and it dies when all the men get together.  It has a decent doom-ending (she fucks up taking care of Duryea but he&#8217;s killed in a police shootout outside, and she calls the professor with the good news too late as he overdoses on meds) then blows it with a cornball it-was-all-a-dream second ending.<\/p>\n<p><em>the fatal glass of beer?<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/window2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward G is a murder professor, and while his family vacations without him, he&#8217;s invited out by titular woman Joan Bennett who likes how he gazed at her painting, then he kills her ex-bf in self-defense when the guy barges in. Having studied murders extensively, Ed knows to go home for his car then return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,344,5,1649,631],"class_list":["post-17494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-edward-g-robinson","tag-fritz-lang","tag-joan-bennett","tag-perfect-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17534,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494\/revisions\/17534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}