Word: tetzlaff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the novelty of watching Macready drop a couple of men in their tracks like deer in Sherwood Forest, Allegro is notable for only one thing. It was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, whose sensitive work in a current minor thriller called The Window entitles him to something better than such conveyor-belt assignments...
...Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities...
...Director Tetzlaff has cannily short-circuited the improbabilities of the script by documentary-like handling of Bobby's home and environment. Bobby, particularly in his moments of open-mouthed terror, is a reminder that child cinemactors can be used effectively for other things than wringing hearts and tears...