The Window (1949)

In a variation on "The Boy who cried Wolf",  this is a well-made, 73 minute, thriller about a boy witnessing a murder while sleeping on the fire escape.  Bobby Driscoll is wonderful as the little boy,while Arthur Kennedy and Barbara Hale (looking very different from Della Street) shine as the tough - but loving - working class parents. The last twenty minutes are especially good,  with the killer chasing Driscoll through a condemned NYC tenement building. Nominated for a 1950 BAFTA "Best film" award, its a forgotten gem.  The only criticism? The middle part drags a little.  Sadly, Driscoll's adult life was troubled and he was found dead in an abandoned NYC tenement building -age 31.