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View company contact information for Rear Window on IMDbPro. [1]
The hero of Alfred Hitchcock ’s “Rear Window ” is trapped in a wheelchair, and we’re trapped, too–trapped inside his point of view, inside his lack of freedom and his limited options. [2]
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. [3]
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. [4]
But while “Rear Window” — which opens at New York’s Film Forum in a newly restored version and makes its way around the country in the next few months — is surely one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best entertainments, there’s no getting around that it’s also an intensely discomforting experience. [5]
Each of the tenants of the other apartments offer an observant comment of marriage and a complete survey of male/female relationships (all the way from honeymooners to a murderous spouse), as the main protagonist watches / spies / spectates through his ‘rear window’ on them. [6]
Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich ’s 1942 short story “It Had to Be Murder”. [7]
Here’s a film about a man who does on the screen what we do in the audience–look through a lens at the private lives of strangers. [2]
A daredevil photographer bored out of his mind by his six weeks of confinement, Jeff turns the lighted windows on the other side of the courtyard into his own private multiplex. [5]
Remarkably, the camera angles are largely from the protagonist’s own apartment, so the film viewer (in a dark theatre) sees the inhabitants of the other apartments almost entirely from his point of view - to share in his voyeuristic surveillance. [...] Including posters, Academy Awards history, film genres, film terms, film history by decade, trivia, and lots of lists of ‘best’ films, stars, scenes, quotes, resources, etc. [6]
It was remade in 1998 as a TV movie with Christopher Reeve in the James Stewart role. [3]
Using the story of a wheelchair-bound photographer (James Stewart) who passes the time recuperating from a broken leg by spying out his window into the apartments of his Greenwich Village neighbors, Hitchcock made a movie that both encourages voyeurism and shames it, that refuses to condemn it or applaud it. [5]
Cornell Woolrich is the author of the story “It Had To Be Murder” (published in Dime Detective Magazine in February 1942), upon which the movie Rear Window is based. [8]
One day the wife is no longer to be seen, and by piecing together several clues (a saw, a suitcase, a newly dug spot in Thorvald’s courtyard garden), Jeff begins to suspect that a murder has taken place. [2]
Sources:
[1] Rear Window - IMDb
[2] Rear Window :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies
[3] Rear Window 1954: Movie and film review from Answers.com
[4] Rear Window Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
[5] “Rear Window” - Salon.com
[6] Rear Window - Greatest Films
[7] Rear Window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[8] Rear Window (1998) (TV)