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Rear Window (1954)

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Reviews Counted: 921

Fresh: 901

Rotten:20

Average Rating: 8.9/10

Consensus: Hitchcock exerted full potential of suspense in this masterpiece.

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (Jimmy Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbors through... The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (Jimmy Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbors through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad dancer, a songwriter, a lonely woman, and the Thorwalds (Raymond Burr and Irene Winston), a bickering couple, among others. But when Mrs. Thorwald disappears, Jefferies is sure that something's wrong. Soon, despite the warnings of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and his motherly nurse, Stella (Thelma Ritter), Jefferies has out his binoculars and telephoto lens and is studying his neighbor "like a bug under glass." However, looking in from the outside might not be as safe as Jefferies assumes. REAR WINDOW is not only a gripping story of murder and suspense, it is a celebrated allegory on the nature of film itself, a story in which the audience watches Jefferies watch the story unfold. The different windows represent the various different stories that are often told on film and also can be seen as representing the coming of television, as Jefferies can watch a multitude of "shows" from the comfort of his own apartment. [More]

Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter

Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Sara Berner, Frank Cady, Georgine Darcy

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: John Michael Hayes
Story: Cornell Woolrich
Composer: Franz Waxman

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