***SPOILERS*** It's when the crazy mixed up Robert "Bobby" Cousick, decided to take a stroll on the ledge of the 15th floor of the Rodney Hotel on Saint Patrick's Day no less that had the entire downtown section of Manhattan came to a complete halt. The crazy guy had a number of family and girlfriend issues that drove him to try to off or kill himself but it was traffic cop on his morning coffee brake Charlie Dunnigan, Paul Douglas, who came on the scene trying to talk him out of doing himself in. As tension builds up thousands of new Yorkers as well as tourists gathered beneath the hotel to watch the show including two star struck lovers Ruth & stock and box boy Danny Kempner, Debra Paget & Jeffery Hunter, who ends up talking a walk down Wall Street arm and arm by the time the show or movie is finally over. There was also a bunch of taxi drivers taking bets when Cousick would take his fatal dive just to pass, since they weren't doing any business anyway, the time of day that after 14 hours went into the night.
Up on the 15th floor Dunnigan does his best to talk Cousick out of killing himself but is interrupted by police top head shrinker or psychiatrist Dr. Strauss, Martin Gable, who's advice in what he should do, get in touch with his inner feelings, makes things worse not better. That as well as Cousick's parents his drama queen mom Christine, Agnes Moorehead, as just sobering up dad after spending all night in a local bar Paul, Robert Keith, who's very presents makes Cousick far more willing to off himself then not jumping. Finally we get to see the reason for Cousick's demented actions when his girlfriend Virginia Foster, Barbara Del Geddes, is brought in to talk some sense into his confused head.
***SPOILERS***It was Virginia who finally got to Cousick but as usual the police, with the exception of Officer Dunnigan,almost blew it by jumping the gun as he was about to come back into his hotel room setting up the exciting final heart dropping, of many, scene in the movie. Look for a young 21 year old Grace Kelly as Louise Ann Fuller who by watching all the action provided by Cousick from her lawyers office decided not to divorce her husband Thomas, James Warren, by seeing that some people in the world have far more problems that she and her husband do!
P.S The movie was based on 26 year old John Warde who jumped to his death off the 17th floor of the Hotel Gotham on July 26, 1938. That after his sister made an off color remark about his mental status that drove him off the edge as well as the edge of the 17th floor of the hotel.
Up on the 15th floor Dunnigan does his best to talk Cousick out of killing himself but is interrupted by police top head shrinker or psychiatrist Dr. Strauss, Martin Gable, who's advice in what he should do, get in touch with his inner feelings, makes things worse not better. That as well as Cousick's parents his drama queen mom Christine, Agnes Moorehead, as just sobering up dad after spending all night in a local bar Paul, Robert Keith, who's very presents makes Cousick far more willing to off himself then not jumping. Finally we get to see the reason for Cousick's demented actions when his girlfriend Virginia Foster, Barbara Del Geddes, is brought in to talk some sense into his confused head.
***SPOILERS***It was Virginia who finally got to Cousick but as usual the police, with the exception of Officer Dunnigan,almost blew it by jumping the gun as he was about to come back into his hotel room setting up the exciting final heart dropping, of many, scene in the movie. Look for a young 21 year old Grace Kelly as Louise Ann Fuller who by watching all the action provided by Cousick from her lawyers office decided not to divorce her husband Thomas, James Warren, by seeing that some people in the world have far more problems that she and her husband do!
P.S The movie was based on 26 year old John Warde who jumped to his death off the 17th floor of the Hotel Gotham on July 26, 1938. That after his sister made an off color remark about his mental status that drove him off the edge as well as the edge of the 17th floor of the hotel.