The read
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 78% of the 112 1940s thriller movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 13m.
Synopsis
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
75 audience votes
Key crew
- Ted TetzlaffDirector
- Mel DinelliScreenplay
- Roy WebbOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Bobby DriscollTommy Woodry
- Barbara HaleMary Woodry
- Arthur KennedyEd Woodry
- Paul StewartJoe Kellerson
- Ruth RomanJean Kellerson
- Richard BenedictMurdered Seaman (Uncredited)
- James NolanStranger on Street (Uncredited)
- Anthony RossDetective Ross (uncredited)
- Tom ColemanCop Carrying Stretcher (Uncredited)
- Lloyd DawsonPolice Officer (Uncredited)
- Carl FaulknerPolice Officer (Uncredited)
- Budd FinePolice Officer (Uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
new york citypolicechasefire escapeparent child relationshipmenacechild in perilfilm noirmurdermurderertenementwitness to murder