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Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with Nietzschean philosophy by their kindly professor James Stewart, Granger and Dall kill a third friend just for the thrill of it. The boys hide the body in an antique chest in the middle of their posh
PG, 1 hr. 20 min.
Aug 23, 1948 Wide
Mar 6, 2001
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Apart from the tedium of waiting or someone to open that chest and discover the hidden body which the hosts have tucked away for the sake of a thrill, the unpunctuated flow of image becomes quite monotonous.
Rope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary.
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.
Serves only as perverse entertainment.
An elaborately perverse buffet served up at a pivotal moment in Hitchcock's career
Hitchcock's experiment goes beyond look-ma-no-cuts stunt and into a suffocating moral inquiry.
"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
Experimental Hitchcock murder mystery, very stagey
Genius!
Hitchcock's 'one take' classic gets better with age.
A minor masterpiece; Hitchcock could turn out brilliance even when he considered himself to be simply playing around.
Intriguing experimental film from Hitchcock
It's way too loosely based on the Leopold-Loeb case. But that doesn't make the movie any less interesting. I felt it a bit slow at the beginning, but soon I found myself enjoying the party. Hitchcock's touch of Psycho is apparent here. Or is it only me? One way or another, John Dall is incredibly superb as Brandon. The
January 5, 2012Super Reviewer
A fascinating excersize in film making, Hitchcock's "no-cuts" camerawork is the true star of this one.
November 13, 2011Super Reviewer
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