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Rope (1948)
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Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 30
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained... Based on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained the whodunit crime story, which he felt lacked emotional force, and ROPE shows the director's preference for letting the audience know more than the characters onscreen. The film opens as two young men (Farley Granger and John Dall) strangle a friend just to prove they're intellectually capable of committing the perfect crime. To add to the amusement, they hide the body in a trunk that will serve as the dinner table for a party honoring the deceased. The film hones in on an hour and a half of the party, with the constantly moving camera capturing the changing emotional atmosphere as the guests grow increasingly concerned about the fate of the missing boy. ROPE is a directorial tour de force, blending complex camera movement with intricate staging to present the entire story in near-real time in one location. Notably, the adaptation of the play by Patrick Hamilton was written by perennial Hitchcock actor Hume Cronyn. [More]
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Arthur Laurents, Hume Cronyn, Ben Hecht
Composer: David Buttolph
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Reviews for Rope
Rope is Hitchock's underrated classic that contains some of the most unique filmmaking of it's time. Hitchcock was so far ahead of filmmakers back then and so far ahead of a lot of the filmmakers today.
An elaborately perverse buffet served up at a pivotal moment in Hitchcock's career
"A crime for most, a privilege for some" is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII.
Hitchcock said it was a stunt, but Rope is a fascinating experiment trying to find the cinematic equivalent to a play, with the camera constantly searching
A minor masterpiece; Hitchcock could turn out brilliance even when he considered himself to be simply playing around.
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