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Release Date:
14 January 1955 (Japan)
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Tagline:
Through his rear window and the eye of his powerful camera he watched a great city tell on itself, expose its cheating ways...and Murder!
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Plot:
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 4 wins
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5 nominations
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User Comments:
Reading from Top to Bottom...Hitchcock's Sophisticated Masterpiece
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Additional Details
Also Known As:
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
112 min
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor) (negative) |
Color (Technicolor) (prints)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Fun Stuff
Trivia:
2007: The American Film Institute ranked this as the #48 Greatest Movie of All Time.
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Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: While Lisa and Stella are digging up the flowers (about 92 minute mark) the pianist is shown playing with other musicians. When the harmonica players starts to play, a saxophone is heard although none is visible. The harmonica is subsequently heard also.
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Quotes:
[
first lines]
Voice on radio:
Men, are you over 40? When you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired and rundown? Do you have that listless feeling...
[
the camera pans around the courtyard; cut to later in the day]
Jeff:
[
answering phone] Jefferies.
Gunnison:
Congratulations, Jeff!
Jeff:
For what?
Gunnison:
For getting rid of that cast!
Jeff:
Who said I was getting rid of it?
Gunnison:
This is Wednesday; seven weeks from the day you broke your leg. Yes or no?
Jeff:
Gunnison, how did you ever get to be such a big editor with such a small memory?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in
Swoon (1992)
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Soundtrack:
That's Amore
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Not only does REAR WINDOW (RW) have Alfred Hitchcock's trademark wit, suspense, and romance (with a touch of friction) in spades, but it's one of his most well-crafted, cleverly-staged movies; in fact, even though RW is based on a Cornell Woolrich story, I can't imagine this story being told as effectively in any medium other than cinema. However, the technical accomplishments (explained most entertainingly in the DVD's documentaries) would be nothing without the engaging characters. James Stewart's neighbors are interesting enough to warrant their own movies, and in addition to providing a wry microcosm of New York City life (the only dated thing about it is the lack of air conditioning), they all reflect possible outcomes for the somewhat stormy romance between laid-up shutterbug Stewart and the luminous Grace Kelly as his upscale fashion maven inamorata. As Brent Spiner said while hosting a showing of RW on TNT, the real perversion of the film is Stewart's reluctance to commit to the irresistible Kelly! In fact, one of the things I like about the movie is the way it shows these two very different people gradually learning to compromise and work together. The piquant final shot shows that a woman can have a happy relationship with a man without submerging her own personality -- refreshing for the 1950s! Great supporting cast, too, including Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr in one of his last bad-guy roles before PERRY MASON, and the scene-stealing Thelma Ritter. Incidentally, the restored special edition RW DVD was put together just in time to include Georgine Darcy ("Miss Torso"), then one of the last surviving cast members. Darcy died earlier this year; she will be missed.