Fox paid Raymond Chandler $3500 for the screen rights to "The High Window," which was remade five years later as "The Brasher Doubloon."
This is the seventh and last of the Michael Shayne mysteries produced by Fox with Lloyd Nolan as the Brett Halliday gumshoe.
This film was not released in 1942. It was released nationwide on January 22, 1943. The December 24 ,1942 date is the day some reviewer from a trade paper or a New York newspaper went to the exhibition /viewing room at the Fox building and watched the film in order to write a pre-release review.
In the opening scene, Shayne has his feet up on his desk as he makes a phone call. The soles of his shoes have holes in them. Then he gets a $500 retainer from Mrs. Murdoch. In the next scene, he's on the phone again with his feet on the desk. One can see his shoes have just been re-soled.
Final film of Clara Horton.