Category: Film-Noir
All Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller, Drama
Release Year: 1951
Country: USA
Runtime: 92
Rating: 9 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Henry Hathaway
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: John Paxton – (screenplay)
Joel Sayre – (story)
Produced by: Sol C. Siegel – producer
Cast: Paul Douglas – Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan
Richard Basehart – Robert Cosick
Barbara Bel Geddes – Virginia Foster
Debra Paget – Ruth
Agnes Moorehead – Christine Hill Cosick
Robert Keith – Paul E. Cosick
Howard Da Silva – Deputy Police Chief Moskar (as Howard da Silva)
Jeffrey Hunter – Danny Klempner
Martin Gabel – Dr. Strauss
Grace Kelly – Mrs. Louise Ann Fuller
Frank Faylen – Walter, room service waiter
Music: Alfred Newman
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Plot Outline: An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.
Plot: A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of that.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Whiteness - Herman Melville
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: There is a serious anomaly about 47 minutes into the film. The POWs transport, rather ancient and decrepit old wooden railway box-cars with no windows, suddenly change, in a cut, into comfortable looking main-line passenger coaches with windows before reverting, in another cut, to the ancient wooden box cars.
Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- This film is based on a real life incident which happened 26 July 1938 in New York City. John W. Warde, 26 years of age, leaped seventeen floors to his death from the ledge outside a room at the Hotel Gotham.
- The building used was demolished in 1967, and was replaced by a 52-storey tower called “140 Broadway”, noted for its large red cube in the plaza.
- Producer Sol C. Siegel won permission from the New York Police Department to rope off a large section of downtown New York as one extensive “set”.
