A Window in London (1940)

Directed by

Herbert Mason

Genre

thriller film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man sees what looks like a murder through a window in a London flat. He gets involved with the wife of a jealous magician.

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What happens

A Window in London is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Herbert Mason, written by Brigid Cooper and Ian Dalrymple for Greenspan & Seligman Enterprises Ltd and distributed by General Film Distributors. The cast includes Michael Redgrave, Patricia Roc, Sally Gray, Paul Lukas and Hartley Power. It is a remake of the French film Metropolitan (1939). The plot focuses on a man who becomes drawn to the wife of a jealous magician - after spotting what appears to be a murder in their flat. The film is set in London, and was made when Waterloo Bridge was still under construction. It was released in the US in 1942 under the title Lady in Distress and released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 15 June 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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