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Genres:
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Crime /
Mystery /
Romance /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Actors:
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Raymond Burr,
Wendell Corey,
Frank Cady,
Judith Evelyn,
Marla English,
Ross Bagdasarian,
Georgine Darcy,
Sara Berner,
Rand Harper,
Irene Winston,
Havis Davenport,
James Stewart,
Grace Kelly,
Thelma Ritter,
Jesslyn Fax
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(8.7/10)152.5
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Plot Summary:
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The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a not working leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but watch on his neighbours on account of their open windows across the on the move in the apartment complex. There's an pleasing and scantily clad dancer, a songwriter, a desolate sweetheart, and the Thorwalds (Raymond Burr and Irene Winston), a bickering two, among others. But when Mrs. Thorwald disappears, Jefferies is sure that something's wrong. Soon, teeth of the warnings of his girlfriend Lisa (Goodness Kelly), and hi... s motherly nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter), Jefferies has out his binoculars and telephoto lens and is studying his neighbour 'like a creepy-crawly underwater glass.' How on earth, looking in from the outside strength not be as safe as Jefferies assumes. Create WINDOW is not on the other hand a gripping plot of blow away and suspense, it is a acclaimed allegory on the properties of film itself, a joke in which the audience watches Jefferies look for the story develop. The out of the ordinary windows can also be seen as a representation of the emerging medium of tube, with Jefferies watching a multitude of 'shows' from the solace of his own apartment.
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Rear Window
Hitchcock's claustrophobic, voyeuristic masterpiece of suspense and sinister mystery. James Stewart gives a performance that is nothing short of superb
Widely regarded as Hitchcock's finest hour, thanks to its heady mix of suspense and mystery coupled with some excellent acting (from central trio Stewart, Kelly and Ritter).
Stewart's the photographer who is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg; he passes his days spying on his neighbours out of the window at the back of his apartment. His relatively harmless voyeurism takes a sinister turn when he sees the man in the opposite flat indulging in some seriously dodgy behaviour (lots of surreptitious use of kitchen tools etc.) and begins to suspect he may have murdered his wife.
Stewart's amaz...
Rear Window
"...The whole from the masterly breach arrangement to the undependable unchangeable shot indicates that this is the wield of a prodigiously expert director..." -- 5 out of 5 stars
Rear Window
Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man. As usual it evolves from whole brilliantly plain...
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