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When a chaste professor of Psychology and a seductive artist's model tangel in a Hollywood production, you are justified in expecting an entertaining and absorbing result. In Nunnally Johnson's expert mystery, "The Woman In The Window," the two become involved in delightfully intricate murder and provide one of the better psychological melodramas of the season.
The picture offers an unusual approach from the start, because the sympathy is with the guilty pair, Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) and Alice Reed (Joan Bennett).
No tonic for the faint-hearted, the thriller consists of a running battle of wits between the Professor and his partner in crime, the very determined District Attorney (Raymond Massey), and the murdered man's blackmailing body-guard (Dan Duryea). "Deus ex machina" solves the apparently impossible situation in an ending of which the studio (International) seems unduly proud.
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