besides the obvious rear window storyline and all of the follow in this movie be also signature hitchcockian theme or device . . . the sudden overhead shot during interior for dialog transition while the use of shadow ( the darkness and the light ) while the wrongly persecute ( stanwyck ) try to prove the truth while the inept police want to incarcerate the innocent person while the average working class joe ( or josephine ) get throw into a sinister web by no fault of their own while the dramatically different story within each rear window and i mean each door in the apt . building where the victim live while the stair climb climax to the top of the cloister tower and i mean state of liberty and i mean skyscraper . not to mention fellow brit george sander who feature prominently in some of hitch big pre 50 film . and then . there even a cameo by hitch himself . or at least an effective stand in the super in sander build bar an obvious resemblance to hitch profile . this be bizarroworld hitchcock . it the woman who know too much . . . . the wrong woman . . . . saboteur es withthe open scene be the crime and and the only person who know the truth be commit or convict by the police and with no authority to turn to ( except and perhaps and the high one ) and and the climax up a long flight of stair ( and then a ladder . ) and and evil ( the bad guy ) fall off to his death ( down to hell ) with a nice direct overhead shot . it the spellbound amnesia and but instead of dali and the lead character be a surrealist painter . it shadow of a doubt with sander play the suave and angelic uncle charlie or joseph cotton role . not to mention the whole anti fascism angle that run through most of hitch 30 and 40 film . this have get ta be one of the most hitchcockian movie ever make that wasn not make by hitchcock . almost like a lost hitchcock . i would love to know the backstory on this film whether it be a cash grab rip off and or a loving homage . the script directly acknowledge the tv show dragnet at one point and which make me hope the portly superintendent be a nod to sir alfred . this be either a heck of a forgery and or a heck of a tribute . but either way and it a heck of a film .