The Face at the Window – 1939 | 66mins | Horror, Crime | B&W

Plot Synopsis

The third adaptation of the stage play by F. Brooke Warren features a sinister Tod Slaughter hamming it up marvellously.

Paris 1880. Le Loup, a wolf-like killer is on the prowl, stabbing his victims while their eyes are transfixed on his hideous face and later robbing them. After such a murder and robbery, suspicion falls on a penniless bank clerk, Lucien Cortier (John Warwick), primarily due to the scheming of Parisian aristocrat Chevalier del Gordo (Tod Slaughter) who, like the clerk, is in love with the bank manager’s daughter, Cecile de Brisson (Marjorie Taylor).

To deal with his love rival, Chevalier attempts to frame Cortier by planting a large sum of coins in his desk and sending an anonymous letter to Cecile’s father Monsieur de Brisson (Aubrey Mallalieu) suggesting he search the young clerks desk – this he does but declines involving the police due to his friendship with Cortier’s deceased father. Monsieur de Brisson realises how Chevalier has tried duping him but he is almost immediately paid a visit by Le Loup and found dead at his home. A deathbed letter written by Professor Le Blanc leads the police to discover that Le Loup is Chevalier’s crazed brother Lucio, and together they are terrorising Paris as cover for a series of bank robberies.