The Woman in the Window

"[lecturing] The Biblical injunction "Thou shalt not kill" is one that requires qualification in view of our broader knowledge of impulses behind homicide. The various legal categories such as first and second degree murder, the various degrees of homicide, manslaughter, are civilized recognitions of impulses of various degrees of culpability. The man who kills in self defense, for instance, must not be judged by the same standards applied to the man who kills for gain."

"The streets were dark with something more than night."

"There are only three ways to deal with a blackmailer. You can pay him and pay him and pay him until you're penniless. Or you can call the police yourself and let your secret be known to the world. Or you can kill him."

"[Sees Alice Reed for the first time, after just seeing her painting in the window] I-I couldn't have drunk that much."

"In the District Attorney's office we see what happens to middle-aged men who try acting like colts."

"We rarely arrest people just for knowing where the body was."

"Dr. Michael Barkstane: We've decided she's our dream girl just from that picture."

"Heidt: I don't want to make trouble for anybody. I can, of course, but I don't want to."

"It was the look in her eyes that made him think of murder."

"The screen's supreme adventure in suspense!"

"Edward G. Robinson - Professor Richard Wanley"

"Joan Bennett - Alice Reed"

"Raymond Massey - Dist. Atty. Frank Lalor"

"Edmund Breon - Dr. Michael Barkstane"

"Dan Duryea - Heidt/Tim, the Doorman"

"Thomas E. Jackson - Inspector Jackson, Homicide Bureau"

"Dorothy Peterson - Mrs. Wanley"

"Arthur Loft - Claude Mazard/Frank Howard/Charlie the Hat check Man"