Rear Window

Rear Window (1954)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (62 reviews)

  • 95% of users liked it
    (122,656 ratings)

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… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
John Michael Hayes
Genres
Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
In Theaters
Sep 1, 1954 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Sragow, New Yorker

    It's one of Alfred Hitchcock's inspired audience-participation films: watching it, you feel titillated, horrified, and, ultimately, purged.

  • , TIME Magazine

    Just possibly the second most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man.

  • Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

    The deliciousness of watching the film as it's intended to be seen is that the big screen gives Rear Window back its claustrophobia.

  • Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News

    Don't resist the urge -- steal a peek at it now, and be reminded why Hitchcock is still without equal in the clammy thrills department.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Albert K


    Hitchcock A.K.A. "The Master of Suspense". I came into this film thinking, "Let's see if he lives up to his title." Oh, he proved it to me, alright. What a craftsman. Unfortunately, a lot of thrillers and horror films fall victim to audience's… More

  • c0up  


    'Rear Window'. The master of suspense in perfect control of his craft, focusing the lens on a subject that has been taken to the extreme today, and will only go further; voyeurism. "We've become a race of Peeping Toms" - Readers Digest, April 1939. Watching… More

  • xGary X


    A photo-journalist laid up with a broken leg entertains himself by watching the daily coming and goings of his neighbours but mounting circumstantial evidence leads him to suspect that one of them has committed a grisly murder. Hitchcock was always the consummate voyeur and in Rear… More

  • Sophie B


    Hitchcock is most certainly a master of his art. I thoroughly enjoyed this, and despite the fact that I have seen the loose remake Disturbia, I was completely involved in the story and couldn't always guess what was going to happen. Fantastic performances from everyone and I… More

  • paul o


    A masterpiece in cinema. I loved every frame and the auteurism shown by Hitchcock will make any film maker jealous. Amazing piece of film!

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