Efficient streamlining of Raymond Chandler's complicated novel The High Window. Montgomery is not the ideal Marlowe by any stretch, (though he makes a decent effort), and Guild's Merle is not the hysterical neurotic character of the novel, but the supporting cast is fine, especially Bates as an overbearing harridan and Kortner as a lecherous Peter Lorre-like blackmailer.
Note: Werbisek's role as a maid was deleted, but IMDb's claim that Ethel Griffies is in this appears to be a confusion with her appearance in Time to Kill, the Michael Shayne film based on the same novel. Gargan's role as a truck driver also appears to have been deleted.
-Dave W. |