Film Snail

5.7

The Shadow on the Window

NR·1957·76m

Crime

Drama

Crime

Drama

Summary

Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?

Cast

Philip Carey

Sgt. Tony Atlas

Betty Garrett

Linda Atlas

John Drew Barrymore

Jess Reber

Corey Allen

Gil Ramsey

Gerald Sarracini

Joey Gomez

Jerry Mathers

Petey Atlas

Sam Gilman

Sgt. Paul Denke

Rusty Lane

Capt. McQuade

Ainslie Pryor

Dr. Hodges

Paul Picerni

Bigelow

William Leslie

Stuart

Doreen Woodbury

Molly

Ellie Kent

Girl

Dave Barry

Miller (uncredited)

Nesdon Booth

Truck Driver (uncredited)

Paul Bryar

Bartender (uncredited)

Don Carlos

Felipe (uncredited)

Thom Carney

Man (uncredited)

George Cisar

Proprietor (uncredited)

Curtis Cooksey

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Henry Corden

Louie (uncredited)

Tom Daly

San Francisco Dispatcher (uncredited)

Diane DeLaire

Thelma (uncredited)

Watson Downs

Ben Canfield (uncredited)

Bill Erwin

Policeman (uncredited)

Jeanne Ferguson

Girl (uncredited)

Michael Garrett

Dr. Turnesa (uncredited)

Jim Hayward

Dispatcher (uncredited)

Norman Leavitt

Postman (uncredited)

Jack Lomas

Jim Warren (uncredited)

Nora Marlowe

Mrs. Bergen (uncredited)

Eve McVeagh

Bessie Warren (uncredited)

Carl Milletaire

Sgt. Nordli (uncredited)

Mort Mills

Myra's Husband (uncredited)

Ralph Montgomery

Bus Driver (uncredited)

Billy Nelson

Unshaved Man (uncredited)

Joe Quinn

Policeman (uncredited)

Angela Stevens

Myra (uncredited)

Wayne Taylor

Young Man (uncredited)

Joe Turkel

Lounger (uncredited)

Julian Upton

Bergen (uncredited)

Mel Welles

Polikoff (uncredited)

Russ Whiteman

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Crew

Director

William Asher

Screenplay

Leo Townsend

Screenplay

David P. Harmon

Story

John Hawkins

Story

Ward Hawkins

Reviews

Geronimo1967

January 11, 2024

When three young hoodlums rob a remote farmhouse, they end up killing the owner and having to take his secretary hostage. Luckily, her young son "Petey" (Jerry Mathers) escapes and turns up, shell-shocked, before his policeman father "Atlas" (Philip Carey) unable to speak! Now the thing is, the parents are estranged and the cop has no idea as to where his son has been, nor where his estranged wife "Linda" (Betty Garrett) actually is. We know that she is the hostage, and as the kids holding her get more and more paranoid, and liquored up, we can sense the increasing danger she is in all whilst the police try to track her down - completely ignorant of her predicament. Can they find her in time? At times it is quite a well paced little thriller with the pressures mounting menacingly at the house as the resolve of the young men starts to falter. Sadly, though, the quality of the acting lets this down quite badly. Carey is just going through the motions and though Garrett does try to exude a sense of fear as the trapped stenographer, serendipity just takes too an implausible an hand in the closing stages of this drama and it all rather (tragically) fizzles out.