Rear Window

Rear Window1954

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 115 minutes

Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, conva… more »



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The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the work house...They got no windows in the work house. You know, in the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells you're always watchin' worth a red-hot poker? Oh dear, we've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes, sir. How's that for a bit of home-spun philosophy?

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