An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller
Keywords: tmdb.new-york-city, tmdb.parent-child-relationship, imdb.fire-escape, tmdb.menace, tmdb.chase, tmdb.police, tmdb.murder + 63 more, tmdb.child-in-peril, tmdb.murderer, tmdb.tenement, tmdb.rooftop, tmdb.police-station, tmdb.home-alone, tmdb.abandoned-building, tmdb.murder-witness, tmdb.incredulous-parents, imdb.reference-to-aesop-s-fables, imdb.reference-to-the-boy-who-cried-wolf, imdb.witness-to-a-murder, imdb.stabbed-with-scissors, imdb.watching-through-a-window, imdb.hiding-a-dead-body, imdb.heart-to-heart-talk, imdb.stray-cat, imdb.reporting-a-murder, imdb.upstairs-neighbors, imdb.public-telephone, imdb.note, imdb.child-home-alone, imdb.window-nailed-shut, imdb.locked-in-a-room, imdb.wire-coat-hanger, imdb.punching-a-child, imdb.rooftop-chase, imdb.dilapidated-building, imdb.crying-for-help, imdb.condemned-building, imdb.falling-to-death, imdb.beam, imdb.father-proud-of-son, imdb.heat-wave, imdb.safety-net, imdb.derelict-building, imdb.wooden-beam, imdb.sleeping-on-fire-escape, imdb.child-in-jeopardy, tmdb.fire-escape, tmdb.boy-who-cried-wolf, imdb.rooftop, imdb.disposing-of-a-dead-body, imdb.apartment-building, imdb.kidnapping, imdb.9-year-old-boy, imdb.kidnapping-a-child, imdb.climbing-in-a-window, imdb.climbing-out-a-window, imdb.false-accusation-of-lying, imdb.jumping-from-height, imdb.tenement, imdb.scissors, imdb.home-alone, imdb.key, imdb.locked-door, imdb.breaking-and-entering, imdb.taxi, imdb.apartment, imdb.neighbor, mdblist.fresh, tmdb.film-noir, awards.oscar-nominated
Production companies: RKO Radio Pictures
Country: United States
Languages:
English
