Old movie about a young boy who sees a murder out a window?
The young boy is learning to play the piano. He sets an elephant figurine upside down in a window to warn someone of something. When he does it one evening, he sees a murder happening across in another building. I believe this is a German made movie. What is the Title?
I am not positive that it is German but it is B&W vintage. Does either of these have the young boy playing the piano and he places an elephant figurine in the window .. I think he puts it there to warn someone
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The Boy Cried Murder (1966 West Germany)
IMDb review:
Jonno (Fraser MacIntosh) is a mischievous 12-year old who is having trouble accepting his new stepfather (Phil Brown) and is prone to tell a "tall tale" from time to time. On vacation with his mother and stepfather in Budvah, Jonno secretly witnesses the disposal of a dead woman's bloody corpse. Because he has "cried wolf" so many times in the past, nobody believes his story. Nobody except the killer himself, who vows to track young Jonno down and silence the only person who can put him behind bars. Very tense and dramatic ending. (Basically a remake of the 1949 motion picture "The Window".)
This sort of "clicked" with me though I don't recall the elephant figurine. I think I might have this in my videotape collection from the long-gone years when USA used to show so many films. A reviewer referred to a chase across clay-tile roofs, and that really made me certain I'd seen it because I also recall the name "Jonno" AND Fraser MacIntosh, who only did one other film surprisingly.
Here are a couple of others similar in topic.
Sudden Terror (1970)
aka Eyewitness
IMDb synopsis:
Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young bystander even under the spectre of martial law.
The Window (1949)
IMDb synopsis:
At the age of 9, Tommy Woodry has a reputation for telling tall tales -- the latest one being that his family is moving from Manhattan to a ranch out west. When the landlord interrupts the Woodrys at dinner to show their about to be vacated apartment, the Woodrys tell Tommy enough is enough. Then that hot summer night Tommy decides to sleep on the fire escape -- outside the Kellerton's apartment, since it is a story higher and gets more breeze. Tommy sees the Kellertons kill a man. Tommy's parents and the police won't believe his story. But the Kellertons want to silence him.
"The Window" and "The Boy Cried Murder" are based on a story by Cornell Woolrich, who also inspired "Rear Window".
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