Review of Fingers at the Window

When the film begins, the streets are empty at night and the city is in a panic. This is because several different axe-wielding maniacs have been striking. So far, six folks are dead and six different killers were found at the scene--all catatonic and clearly mentally disturbed. The police, as usual for these sort of films, are rather dim and think the six cases are all unrelated! Well, also as usual with these sort of mystery films, the guy who is really thinking is a civilian (like this is the case in real life!). An out of work actor, Duffy (Lew Ayres) thinks the killings are all being orchestrated by one man. Soon, after stopping one of these killings, Duffy and Edwina (Laraine Brown) begin investigating on their own and the trail soon leads to Dr. Santelle (Basil Rathbone). So what gives?!

There are a lot of the usual clichés in this film and you must suspend disbelief...again typical for most B murder mysteries. Mind control and murder?! Ha! But provided you do suspend disbelief, you'll enjoy yourself because the acting is quite nice, the mystery strange and intriguing and it's far better than most films in the genre.