On this day in movie and book history - The Bedroom Window (1987) and The Witnesses (1971)

The Bedroom Window

directed and written by Curtis Hanson,

based on the novel The Witnesses by Anne Holden,

was released in the United States on January 16, 1987.

Music by Michael Shrieve and Patrick Gleeson.

Cast:

Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Carl Lumbly, Wallace Shawn, Frederick Coffin, Brad Greenquist, Robert Schenkkan, Maury Chaykin, Sara Carlson, Mark Margolis, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Penelope Allen, Myvanwy Jenn, Francis V. Guinan Jr., Kevin O'Rourke, Sydney Conrad Shapiro, Wendy Womble, Libra Marrian, Scott Colson, Carl Whitney, Richard McGough, Jodi Long, Richard K. Olsen, Leon Rippy, John Patrick Maloney, Kerry Lang, J. Michael Hunter, Joyce Flick Wendl, Joyce Greer, Winston Hemingway, Michael Burgess, J. Rich Leonard, Craig Jahelka, Tobi Marsh, Michael Bard Bayer, Rick Sawaya, Denise Season Leigh Stone, Gary Wheeler.

Recommended reading:

 

The Witnesses

by Anne Holden.
 
Filmed as The Bedroom Window (1987), directed by Curtis Hanson.
 
Hardcover.
Published 1971.
Published by Macmillan.

ISBN 13: 9780333126486
ISBN 10: 0333126483
ASIN: 0333126483
 
Description:
 
A Joan Kahn-Harper novel of suspense.
A married woman visiting her lover witnesses a crime outside the window.
She couldn't possibly go to the police, could she?
But then ...
This is a tense, highly suspenseful, compelling tale.
Don't start to read it if you have an appointment you have to keep before you finish.