Top billed cast

1. 

   Bobby Driscoll

   Tommy Woodry

2. 

   Barbara Hale

   Mary Woodry

3. 

   Arthur Kennedy

   Ed Woodry

4. 

   Paul Stewart

   Joe Kellerson

5. 

   Ruth Roman

   Jean Kellerson

6. 

   Richard Benedict

   Murdered Seaman (Uncredited)

7. 

   James Nolan

   Stranger on Street (Uncredited)

8. 

   Anthony Ross

   Detective Ross (uncredited)

9. 

   Tom Coleman

   Cop Carrying Stretcher (Uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2015-05-11

Like the boy who cried wolf.

A belter of a B noir out of RKO. Story plays as a variant to the boy who cried wolf legend and finds young Bobby Driscoll as Tommy, a boy prone to telling tall tales. So when one night he spies upstairs neighbours murdering a man, nobody believes him...

The build up to the crime is considered, we are privy to Tommy's home life in a cramped New York tenement, his parents loyal and hard working and they have plenty of love for their fanciful son.

Once the crime is committed, a shocking incident compounded by the fact it's perpetrated by a normal looking male...read the rest

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5. Becky63%
6. Summer of Sam65%
7. Halloween75%
8. Strange Darling69%
9. The Believers59%
10. Mother's Day64%
11. Dolores Claiborne73%
12. The Devil's Candy63%
13. Night of the Living Dead76%
14. Funny Games65%
15. Le locataire76%
16. Housebound65%
17. Castle Freak61%
18. Scream74%
19. Death Wish62%
20. The Home68%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• new york city
• police
• chase
• fire escape
• parent child relationship
• menace
• child in peril
• film noir
• murder
• murderer
• tenement
• witness to murder
• rooftop
• police station
• home alone
• abandoned building
• incredulous parents