The Face at the Window (1939 film)

The Face at the Window

Directed by	George King
Produced by	George King
Written by	A.R. Rawlinson (scenario and dialogue) Randall Faye (treatment)
Based on	the "Famous Melodrama", The Face at the Window by F. Brooke Warren
Starring	Tod Slaughter
Music by	Jack Beaver
Cinematography	Hone Glendinning
Edited by	Jack Harris
Production company	George King Productions
Distributed by	British Lion Film Corporation (UK) Arthur Ziehm (U.S.)
Release dates	April 1939 (1939-04)
Running time	70 minutes 65 minutes (USA)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Face at the Window is a 1939 British film directed by George King.^[1] It was the third film adaptation of the stage melodrama by F. Brooke Warren. ^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot

In Paris in 1880, a series of murders involving a grotesque face appearing at victims' windows, is attributed to a mysterious Wolf Man. After being accused of being the perpetrator, bank clerk Lucien Cortier (John Warwick) seeks to uncover the true identity of the murderer.

Cast

Tod Slaughter as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Marjorie Taylor as Cecile de Brisson
John Warwick as Lucien Cortier
Leonard Henry as Gaston, the Cook
Aubrey Mallalieu as M. de Brisson
Robert Adair as Police Inspector Gouffert
Wallace Evennett as Professor LeBlanc
Kay Lewis as Babette, the Maid
Bill Shine as Pierre, Babette's Beau
Margaret Yarde as La Pinan
Harry Terry as The Face at the Window

Critical reception

In a contemporary review, Film Weekly called the film "a vintage thriller, put over in the right, rich spirit of years ago";^[5] while more recently Britmovie praised "a sinister Tod Slaughter hamming it up marvellously." ^[2] and the Radio Times wrote, "As with any film featuring the outrageously operatic antics of early horror star Tod Slaughter, this slow, stagebound murder-mystery would be completely unwatchable without the producer-star's presence."^[4]

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Films directed by George King

Too Many Crooks (1930)
Leave It to Me (1930)
The Professional Guest (1931)
Number, Please (1931)
Deadlock (1931)
Midnight (1931)
Men of Steel (1932)
Self Made Lady (1932)
To Brighton with Gladys (1933)
Smithy (1933)
Enemy of the Police (1933)
I Adore You (1933)
Too Many Wives (1933)
Beware of Women (1933)
Matinee Idol (1933)
High Finance (1933)
Mayfair Girl (1933)
Her Imaginary Lover (1933)
The Silver Spoon (1933)
Oh No Doctor! (1934)
Murder at the Inn (1934)
Nine Forty-Five (1934)
Guest of Honour (1934)
To Be a Lady (1934)
Get Your Man (1934)
The Blue Squadron (1934)
The Office Wife (1934)
Little Stranger (1934)
Windfall (1935)
Full Circle (1935)
Adventure Ltd. (1935)
The Man Without a Face (1935)
Gay Old Dog (1935)
Reasonable Doubt (1936)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
Wanted! (1937)
Under a Cloud (1937)
The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
Merry Comes to Town (1937)
Silver Top (1938)
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
John Halifax (1938)
The Face at the Window (1939)
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
The Chinese Bungalow (1940)
The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
Two for Danger (1940)
George and Margaret (1940)
Tomorrow We Live (1943)
Candlelight in Algeria (1944)
Gaiety George (1946)
Code of Scotland Yard (1947)
Forbidden (1949)

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