J. H. Wallis was a writer whose best-selling book Once Off Guard (in later publications it was called The Woman in the Window) was made into a film, The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window is a film noir directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of psychology professor Richard Wanley who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale....

(1944), directed by Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...

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Published a book of poetry (1916, New Haven: Yale University Press) "The Testament of William Windune and Other Poems." Title poem was modeled after "The Greater Testament of Francois Villon."

External links

• Review of Once Off Guard Includes a brief biography of Wallis.