Rear Window
(1954)In Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece, Jimmy Stewart plays a photographer confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg. Bored and stuck in his apartment, he takes to spying on his neighbours. When one goes missing, he thinks murder is afoot.... More
Despite the warnings of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and his motherly nurse, Stella (Thelma Ritter), Jefferies uses his binoculars and telephoto lens to studying his neighbour "like a bug under glass." But looking in from the outside might not be as safe as Jefferies assumes. Hide
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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Irene Winston
Written by John Michael Hayes (based on the short story 'It Had to be Murder' by Cornell Woolrich)
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Lovingly invests in suspense all through the film, banking it in our memory, so that when the final payoff arrives, the whole film has been the thriller equivalent of foreplay. Full Review
Witty, suspenseful, sad, funny and wise. Full Review
Its appeal, which goes beyond that of other, equally masterly Hitchcock works, remains undiminished. Full Review
One of Alfred Hitchcock's inspired audience-participation films: watching it, you feel titillated, horrified, and, ultimately, purged. Full Review
Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man. Full Review
A strangely dream-like quality pervades ... and the implication that what's happening up on screen is merely the projection of the protagonist's anxieties. Full Review
Hitchcock combines technical and artistic skills in a manner that makes this an unusually good piece of murder mystery entertainment. Full Review
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