Rating: PG
Genre:
Mystery
Release Date: 10/07/2008
SubTitles: Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DDM2.0
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (
James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (
Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (
Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (
Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (
Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (
Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of
Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts,
Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with
Michael Powell's
Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Hitchcock's Deadly Guide to Voyeurism.
James Stewart's second collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock has him casted as a magazine photographer confined to a wheelchair as a result of a broken leg, who passes the time spying on his neighbors, and then, he begins to suspect a costume jewelry salesman of murdering his invalid wife. Grace Kelly also stars as his beautiful socialite girlfriend, who helps him uncover any incriminating evidence. This is one of Hitchcock's classic masterpieces. Also starring Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Judith Evelyn, Frank Cady, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine D'Arcy, Sara Berner, Jesslyn Fax, Rand Harper, and Irene Winston.
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