Product Information
A man confined to his apartment with a broken leg passes the time by spying on his neighbours. He suspects one of his neighbours of murder and must try to convince non-believers.Product Identifiers
ProducerAlfred Hitchcock
EAN5050582490565
eBay Product ID (ePID)59529481
Product Key Features
ActorGrace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Frank Cady, Wendell Corey, Georgine Darcy, James Stewart, Raymond Burr, Sara Berner, Judith Evelyn
Film/TV TitleRear Window
DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
LanguageEnglish
Run Time112 Mins
Release Year2007
FormatDVD
FeaturesInteractive Menu
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerFranz Waxman
Production DesignerJoseph MacMillan Johnson
Additional InformationThe weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad dancer, a songwriter, a lonely woman, and the Thorwalds (Raymond Burr and Irene Winston), a bickering couple, among others. But when Mrs. Thorwald disappears, Jefferies is sure that something's wrong. Soon, despite the warnings of his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), and his motherly nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter), Jefferies has out his binoculars and telephoto lens and is studying his neighbour 'like a bug under glass.' However, looking in from the outside might not be as safe as Jefferies assumes. 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. The different windows can also be seen as a representation of the emerging medium of television, with Jefferies watching a multitude of 'shows' from the comfort of his own apartment.
ReviewsTotal Film - "...Everything from the masterly opening sequence to the ambiguous final shot indicates that this is the work of a prodigiously talented director..." -- 5 out of 5 stars, New Yorker - It's one of Alfred Hitchcock's inspired audience-participation films: watching it, you feel titillated, horrified, and, ultimately, purged., Time Out - Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man., Entertainment Weekly - "...[New print details] give the movie a sharpness that underscores the whole subtext..." -- Rating: A
ScreenwriterJohn Michael Hayes
Art DirectorHal Pereira
AuthorCornell Woolrich
Sound sourceDolby Digital
EditorGeorge Tomasini
Movie/TV TitleRear Window
Director of PhotographyRobert Burks