The Open WindowAn adaptation of the short story by Saki, in which a sickly, nervous man is told by the young girl of the country house he is visiting that the garden doors are kept open because her aunt, who lost her husband and brother in a hunting accident three years before, believes that the men will return at any moment. |
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