Rear Window (Hitchock, 1954)

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Rafe

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I just saw this last night (never seen it before) and it was a great movie :) How interesting could watching someone look out of a window be? Doesnt it also bring up voyeurism - ie we're watching Jimmy Stewart when he is watching his neighbours.
 
It is a really good movie esp considering it is all through the one window!

To film it they had to dig the floor out of the studio and go into the cellar underneath, that used to be Esther Williams swimming pool, to be able to fit the height of the apartments into the studio
The actual ground level when you walked in was the level of his apartment.
I like Thelma Ritter in this (playing the nurse) very funny.
 
Fabulous film.
One of my Hitchcock favourites as well.
James Stewart was superb and made the film the success it was as far as I am concerned.

Gosh, Grace Kelly was beautiful.
 
I live in an old Edinburgh Tenement, and it backs on to another row of the same. It's like Rear Window every night (well, apart from the whole murder thing).
 
At least the special effects will be better a big rubber pigeon on a coat hanger smashing into a telephone box, in my view sort of took the edge off the original.
 
Interesting. I didnt know that :)
How was Hitch able to use several hit tunes - notably a plonky piano version of "That's Amore" but also "Mona Lisa"? I didnt expect that.
 
I love this film. The story pulls you along as well as the great performances (and direction of course).

It feels like a classic play and the confinement of the setting adRAB to it rather than detracts.
 
I rented it on dvd a couple of weeks ago. Great acting and cimatography but the story was to predictable. early on it was obivious the man he suspected was a murderer and he was going to get caught.
 
well to be fair, you do have to put yourself in the frame of mind of an audience from 1954. It may be predictable now to someone who has access to a library of 55 years worth of movies and television since that film came out.
 
if we have to put ourselfs in the frame of mind of an audience from over half a century ago its fair to say the movie hasn't stood the test of time.
 
I did a presentation on this film and voyeurism last year at university. It's definitely my favourite Hitchcock and I find voyeurism very interesting.
 
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