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Witness to Murder is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roy Rowland released in USA on 15 april 1954 with Barbara Stanwyck
Witness to Murder (1954)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 15 april 1954
Length 1h23
Directed by Roy Rowland
OriginUSA
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Rating65%
Witness to Murder is a 1954 suspense film starring Barbara Stanwyck. While the film received moderately positive reviews, it ended up as an also-ran to Alfred Hitchcock's somewhat similar Rear Window, which opened less than a month later. The latter picture was a box-office hit.
Synopsis
Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck), while looking out her bedroom window, witnesses a young woman being strangled to death. The woman reports the killing to the police, but when the man named Albert Richter (George Sanders) notices detectives arriving downstairs, he moves the body. When the police show up to his door, Richter acts nonchalant, and when no body is found, the police are convinced that the woman saw something in her dreams.Actors
Barbara Stanwyck
(Cheryl Draper)
George Sanders
(Albert Richter)
Gary Merrill
(Police Lt. Lawrence Mathews)
Jesse White
(Police Sgt. Eddie Vincent)
Harry Shannon
(Captain Donnelly)
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