IVIV (1) "She came along the alley and up the back steps ..."

[alice wellintown]

The Woman in the Window (1944), is a film noir directed by Fritz Lang
that tells the story of psychology professor Richard Wanley (Edward G.
Robinson) who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale.

The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry censorship
guidelines which governed the production of the vast majority of
United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to
1968. It was originally popularly known as the Hays Code, after its
creator, Will H. Hays.

J. H. Wallis was a writer whose best-selling book Once Off Guard (in
later publications it was called The Woman in the Window) was made
into a film, The Woman in the Window (1944), directed by Fritz Lang.
His chief genre was mystery although he wrote some poetry at the
beginning of his career.

It seems no coincidence that Fritz Lang's first American film, Fury
(1936), opens with a close-up that turns out to be a window display.
In his next two films, They Only Live Once (1937) and You and Me
(1938), lovers linger at shop windows, dreaming. The Woman in the
Window (1944) takes this material allure to the next logical level by
placing a picture of a woman inside the shop window. Just a few brisk
dissolves after Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) has bid a fond
farewell to his wife and children at New York's Grand Central Station,
we find him planted in front of a gallery window display marveling at
the woman in the portrait. But window-shopping, as Lang is about to
prove, can be a dangerous pastime.

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