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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 th…
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The Shadow on the Window
“your eyes will open wide... at the terrifying things that happen in that room!”
59%
Movie
1h 16m
AI Analysis
The Shadow on the Window (1957) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of The Shadow on the Window (1957) — a movie tagged as Crime and Drama with tense moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: 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? Our models also surface themes such as family from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~76 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate The Shadow on the Window 59% (23 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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Synopsis
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?
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- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1957-03-06
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- TMDB rating
- 5.9
- TMDB ID
- 44931
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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 in... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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Cast
Philip Carey
Sgt. Tony Atlas
Betty Garrett
Linda Atlas
John Drew Barrymore
Jess Reber
Corey Allen
Gil Ramsey
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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
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Doreen Woodbury
Molly
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Ellie Kent
Girl
Dave Barry
Miller (uncredited)
Nesdon Booth
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
Bartender (uncredited)
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Don Carlos
Felipe (uncredited)
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Thom Carney
Man (uncredited)
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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.
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