The Bedroom Window is a 1924 mystery or who-dunnit silent film directed by William C. deMille and starring May McAvoy. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures.
The film still exists and preserved at the Library of Congress.
Le père d'une famille excentrique, les Wheeler, embauche un ex-soldat, Clarence, comme homme de mains. Clarence s'éprend de la gouvernante de la famille, Violet. Quant à M Wheeler, elle nourrit peu à peu une attirance grandissante pour Clarence. De son côté, Hubert Stein, le secrétaire de M. Wheeler, montre un jour à M. Wheeler un article sur un certain Charles Smith, déserteur de l'armée, et insiste sur le fait que Clarence serait en réalité Charles Smith. S'ensuivent alors des complications.
Réalisé parWilliam C. de Mille OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame ActeursSessue Hayakawa, Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, Mayme Kelso, Raymond Hatton, Charles Ogle Note60% As described in a film magazine, Kitty Little (Vidor), a German spy under the direction of Dr. Ebell Smith (Ogle), is employed by Major John Northfield (Holt). The spies are anxious to obtain information on the sailing dates of transport ships. Nara-Nara (Hayakawa), a clever Japanese spy, is on the trail of the German spies and suspects Northfield of dishonesty. However, a letter makes him suspect Kitty, whom he has grown to love. Northfield, who also loves Kitty and also suspects her, as a test gives her a blank letter which he tells her to mail as it contains transport sailing dates. Kitty takes the letter to Smith. Nara-Nara follows and in a struggle kills Smith. He then endeavors to force Kitty to go away with him, but she reminds him of his ambition to keep his sword clean and he leaves her. While going to examine the body of Smith, Nara-Nara is killed by one of Smith's accomplices. Northfield comes to Kitty, who is in receipt of a letter from her brother in the German trenches that states he is to be shot for shielding women and children. Kitty becomes a true American and the fiance of Northfield.