John Dall, Farley Granger, James Stewart
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001
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September 3, 2009"The power to kill can be just as satisfying as the power to create"
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime....( read more) -
May 4, 2009Another great Hitchcock film! Shot mainly in one location, with what appeared to be seemless filming, the characters are well developed and the plot provides great suspense. The storyline also demonstrates a thin line between theory and practice.
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April 20, 2009This single scene movie is really just a play filmed carefully through the narrow window of a camera. The story borrows heavily from the infamous Leopold and Loeb case where the murders believed they were superior Nietzschean supermen.
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March 18, 2009Two upper class intellectuals plan the "perfect" murder of an old school friend for the sheer thrill of it and hold a dinner party for his friends and family with the corpse hidden within the room. Rope is most famous for its "one shot" conceit as the story takes place entirely w...( read more)
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January 25, 2009Rope is another of Alfred Hitchcock's experiments and he actually pulls off three in this one. The first is that this film is shot like a stage play with the only cuts being when the film ran out in the camera. The second is that it's his first Technicolor film. And third, this i...( read more)
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October 26, 2009The director's absolute tour de force. Amazing staging, great performances, excellent script. A classic.
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October 19, 2009Extraordinary film, and very funny! Feels deep and shallow at the same time.
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October 15, 2009Rope
Errp fell asleep in the guts. It has a macarbre monolog that was quite chick/in vougue in it`s time for it`s style and so suarve actors filming but I didnt make it through an succumed to the... plots storyline. But for the modern technology that was of it`s day far advanc...( read more) -
October 12, 2009Very short for Hitchcock and very strange. Not my favorite of his films.
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August 22, 2006Probably my favorite Hitcock thriller, he manages to retain the suspense throughout the film.
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