Storyline
Professional photographer L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. When he begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife, Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend and his visiting nurse to investigate.
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Cast
Alfred Hitchcock, Ross Bagdasarian, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Bess Flowers, Raymond Burr, Frank Cady, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter, Jesslyn Fax, Judith Evelyn, Wendell Corey, Georgine Darcy, Sara Berner, Rand Harper, Irene Winston, Havis Davenport, Marla English, Art Gilmore, Kathryn Grant, Harry Landers, Anthony Warde
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Reviews
100
Rear Window lovingly invests in suspense all through the film, banking it in our memory, so that when the final payoff arrives, the whole film has been the thriller equivalent of foreplay.
100
Flawless, essential viewing that would earn more than its five stars if only Empire would allow it.
100
The film leaps off the screen with a thrilling immediacy.
100
As much as I admire all of these, especially "Vertigo," I can't imagine that any one of them will top the feelings of exhilaration that are prompted by Rear Window, this most bittersweet of Hitchcockian suspense-romances. Make no mistake about it: Rear Window is as much of a romance as it is a brilliant exercise in suspense.
100
Hitchcock confines all of the action to this single setting and draws the nerves to the snapping point in developing the thriller phases of the plot. He is just as skilled in making use of lighter touches in either dialog or situation to relieve the tension when it nears the unbearable. Interest never wavers during the 112 minutes of footage.
