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Rear Window

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Rear Window (TV)

Original title: Rear Window
Year: 1954
Running time: 110 min.
Country: United States
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: John Michael Hayes. Story: Cornell Woolrich
Music: Franz Waxman
Cinematography: Robert Burks
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Wendell Corey
Producer: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Mystery | Spy Film. Cult Movie. Photography
Movie Groups: Cornell Woolrich Adaptations
Synopsis: A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he tries to escape from boredom by looking through the window of his apartment using goggles. After a while, he starts to suspect that there has been a murder in one of the opposite apartments.

Rankings Position

#15 Best Mystery Films
#42 Best US Movies of all time
#67 Best Movies in the history of film

Awards: 1954: 4 Nominations for Oscar: Best Director, Sound, Cinematography color, Screenplay

1954: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Film

1954: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actress (Grace Kelly). 2 Nominations

1954: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director

1954: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Drama Screenplay

1954: National Board of Review: Best Actress (Kelly)

Critics' reviews

"Masterpiece of voyeurism"

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly
"This level of danger and suspense is so far elevated above the cheap thrills of the modern slasher films that 'Rear Window', intended as entertainment in 1954, is now revealed as art (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"A tense and exciting exercise (...) it does expose many facets of the loneliness of city life and it tacitly demonstrates the impulse of morbid curiosity."

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times
"A tight suspense show is offered in 'Rear Window', one of Alfred Hitchcock's better thrillers"

William Brogdon: Variety
"Hitchcock proves again to be 'The Master Of Suspense', but in 'Rear Window' (...) he's the master of a lot more than that (...) [It] ranks among Hitchcock's best."

Scott Tobias: AV Club
"The most densely allegorical of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces (...) It is also Hitchcock's most innovative film in terms of narrative technique"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
"Hitchcock made a career out of indulging our voyeuristic tendencies, and he never excited them more skilfully, or with more gleeful self-awareness, than in 'Rear Window'"

Killian Fox: The Guardian
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