Witness to Murder is a 1954 American FILM NOlR crime drama directed by Roy Rowland and starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, and Gary Merrill. While the film received moderately positive reviews, it ended up as an also-ran to Alfred Hitchcock's somewhat similar Rear Window, which opened less than a month later. You can find out more about this movie from Wikipedia and there is also a review from the movie blog Where Danger Lives .