The Face at the Window (1939 film)

The Face at the Window is a 1939 British film directed by George King. It was the third film adaptation of the stage melodrama by F. Brooke Warren.

Plot
In Paris in 1880, a series of murders involving a grotesque face appearing at victims' windows, is attributed to a mysterious Wolf Man. After being accused of being the perpetrator, bank clerk Lucien Cortier (John Warwick) seeks to uncover the true identity of the murderer.

Cast

 * Tod Slaughter as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
 * Marjorie Taylor as Cecile de Brisson
 * John Warwick as Lucien Cortier
 * Leonard Henry as Gaston, the Cook
 * Aubrey Mallalieu as M. de Brisson
 * Robert Adair as Police Inspector Gouffert
 * Wallace Evennett as Professor LeBlanc
 * Kay Lewis as Babette, the Maid
 * Bill Shine (actor) as Pierre, Babette's Beau
 * Margaret Yarde as La Pinan
 * Harry Terry as The Face at the Window

Critical reception
In a contemporary review, Film Weekly called the film "a vintage thriller, put over in the right, rich spirit of years ago"; while more recently Britmovie praised "a sinister Tod Slaughter hamming it up marvellously." and the Radio Times wrote, "As with any film featuring the outrageously operatic antics of early horror star Tod Slaughter, this slow, stagebound murder-mystery would be completely unwatchable without the producer-star's presence."