The Face at the Window (1932 film)

The Face at the Window is a 1932 British drama film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Raymond Massey, Claude Hulbert and Isla Bevan. It was made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie.^[1] It is based on a play of the same name by F. Brooke Warren first performed in 1897.^[2]

Opening in the shadowed half-light of a bank vault in Paris, where a watchman has been mysteriously murdered, the picture centres around the methods of detective Paul Le Gros - played by Raymond Massey - to solve the identity of a masked criminal called "Le Loup" (The Wolf), who kills with an injection of poison with a finger ring. As Peter Pomeroy, the detective's useless assistant, Claude Hulbert provides a spot of comedy.

• Raymond Massey as Paul le Gros
• Isla Bevan as Marie de Brisson
• Claude Hulbert as Peter Pomeroy
• Eric Maturin as Count Fournal
• Henry Mollison as Lucien Courtier
• A. Bromley Davenport as Gaston de Brisson
• Harold Meade as Dr. Renard
• Dennis Wyndham as Lafonde
• Charles Groves as Jacques

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

• The Face at the Window at IMDb

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