The Face at the Window (1939)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1939
Running Times: 70m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Directed by: George King

PRODUCTION
Copyright: not given
Production Company: A George King production
Producer: Julius Hagen (uncredited)
Production Management: Harold Richmond

SCRIPT
Scenario & Dialogue: A. Rawlinson
Treatment: Ronald Fayre
'Famous Melodrama': Brooke Warren

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Hal Mason

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography: Hone Glendinning

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editing: Jack Harris

MUSIC
Music: Jack Beaver

SOUND
Recording: Harold King

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Philip Bawcombe

LOCATIONS
Studio: British Lion Studios, Beaconsfield, England

CAST

Tod Slaughter (Chevalier del Gardo)

with
Marjorie Taylor (Cecile de Brisson)
John Warwick (Lucien Cortier)
Aubrey Mallalieu (M. de Brisson)
Robert Adair (Inspector Gouffert)
Wallace Evenett (Professor LeBlanc)
Leonard Henry (Gaston)
Kay Lewis (Babette)
Billy Shine (Pierre)
Margaret Yarde (La Pinan)
Harry Terry (the face)

PLOT SUMMARY

Paris, 1880: the city is in the grip of Le Loup, the wolf-like killer stalking the streets. Michel, a worker at the bank owned by De Brisson, is the latest victim and talks briefly of a face at the window before dying. De Brisson's business is ailing and has to call upon the mercies of local businessman Chevalier del Gardo to help bail him out. De Brisson employee Lucien Cortier, who is in love with De Bresson's daughter Cecile, determines to track down the wolf and help to restore the business to its former glory.

UK
Theatrical Distributors: British Lion Films Ltd

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Arthur Ziehm Inc; Eros
Video Distributors: Kino on Video
DVD Distributors: Alpha Video (ALP4582D)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: A

TIMELINE

1952
April
28: UK - television broadcast (on BBC)

October
27: UK - television broadcast (on BBC)

1953
February
2: UK - television broadcast (on BBC)

1988
October
7: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

1995
May
12: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

1997
May
9: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

1998
June
20: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years of Horror (1996)

REFERENCES

PERIODICALS

The Dark Side January / February 96 p.15 (UK)
review

Film Weekly vol.21 no.555 (3 June 1939) (UK)
review

Filmfax no.45 (June / July 1994) pp.31-35 (USA)
illustrated article (Tod Slaughter: Demon Barber of Great Britain by Ken Hanke)

Kinematograph Weekly no.1670 (20 April 1939) (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.6 no.66 (June 1939) p.111 (UK)
credits, review

Video Watchdog no.15 pp.13-14 (USA)
review

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.128
credits, review

Reference Guide to Fantastic Film by Walt Lee p.130
credits

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

book into film

Last Updated: 22 February, 2009