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:

A new element in screen suspense

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".