Rear Window (DVD)

...master of suspense". Rear Window was made in 1954, and it's hailed as one of his finest achievements, even being voted number 14 on IMDb's top 250 films! That's above Citizen Kane and Lawrence of Arabia! Plus it was nominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Screenplay and Best Director! It stars James Stewart and Grace Kelly as a couple who become sure that there's something suspicious going on in the flat opposite... Stewart plays Mr Jeffries, a newspaper ...
...Yes, these are aspects of Rear Window, but this film also contains a lot of humour and romance. I'll warn you now, if you have a short patience span, you might not enjoy watching this. For the first 30 minutes, literally nothing happens, and I'm not exaggerating. Although things do begin to happen after this, it is nonetheless a very slow film. But that's exactly the point - it builds up the suspense, lets you learn more about Mr Jeffries's weird ...

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In his book "Hollywood Babylon II" Kenneth Anger claims that Alfred Hitchcock had a powerful telescope set up in his Hollywood home, focussed in on Grace Kelly's bedroom, in order that he could watch her undress. Believe that if you will, but what is a fact is that voyeurism featured heavily in Hitchcock's films: Anthony Perkins watched Janet Leigh take a shower in "Psycho"; James Stewart observed Kim Novak's daily life in "Vertigo"; Ronald Coleman, ...
..."The Thirty Nine Steps". The same can be said of "Rear Window", except here the camera is on our eye level and we see and watch as avidly as the voyeur. L.B. (Jeff) Jeffries is bored. Seven weeks earlier he broke his leg whilst on a photographic assignment, and now he is confined to a wheelchair in his second floor apartment. He is a man who thrives on danger- he sustained his injuries after being hit by a racing car whilst trying to get the perfect ...

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Rear Window is one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films. If anyone needs to get an idea of what Hitchcock films are like then take a look at this. It's the kind of film that probably wouldn't get made in the present hollywood system with many executives not seeing the box office gold of a film that takes place in one location. James Stewwart plays L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries, a photographer who is confined to his apartment with a plaster cast on his leg due ...
...his apartment window he can see the surrounding apartments and due to his current state he becomes a voyeur of sorts. He is also a man who is afraid of commitment, he is frequently nagged by his home help Stella to settle down. You would think he'd want to as his female partner comes in the shape of Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont. In fact she is hanging on the moment he will marry her although she knows he probably won't. Together they spend their ...

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This classic 1954 film is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most celebrated and enduringly popular films, famed for its incredible case and suspense, and when you watch it, it is easy to see why. Basically the film centres around a photographer called L.B Jeffries, played by the superb James Stewart, who is confined to his apartment due to having a broken leg. He spends a great deal of time looking out of his window, merely out of boredom and intrigue and ...
...building may have been murdered by her husband. This is an incredibly suspenseful, atmospheric and well acted film, with the vast majority of the film taking place in one room looking out into a courtyard. The performances from Stewart and the incomparable Grace Kelley make this incredibly easy to watch. Their relationship and the way in which it develops through their investigation of the suspected murder, is for me one of the highlights of the ...

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Rear Window (1954) is surely one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest movies. The premise is a simple one. The lead character, Jeff, played with aplomb by the wonderfully gifted James Stewart, is an award winning photographer for a magazine. Confined to a wheelchair in his New York apartment due to an unfortunate broken leg which is still in a cast, Jeff manages to help pass the time by people-watching the inhabitants of the apartment block directly opposite ...
...of Jeff's apartment and its rear window's vista. It won't surprise viewers to learn that it was filmed on one large set representing a ficticious address in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Like several of Hitcock's movies it feels like a play and this intimacy helps drag you in and connect with each of the characters. I've lost count of the number of times I have seen this film and I delight in the opportunity to introduce it to new people. It's a ...

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Rear Window has all the ingredients of the Hitchcock classic that it is. First and most important of all, the movie has a plot that twists and turns like a shark closing in on its kill. James Stewart’s photo-journalist (Jeff Jefferies) is put out of action for a month with a broken leg and is left wheelchair-bound in his apartment, confined to watching the domestic to-ings and fro-ings of the inhabitants in the block of flats opposite. The only relief ...
...he views out of his rear window, in particular, he becomes convinced he has witnessed the murder and subsequent cover-up of a neighbour by her husband (played by Raymond Burr). Second, the main characters are really well portrayed. Stewart is perfect for this type of part, Grace Kelly is especially striking (oh yes), playing the perfect society girls whose aversion to getting her hands dirty is the sticking point in her relationship with Jeff. Ritter ...

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With Rear Window, Hollywood has shown once again that it is possible to make a first rate film on a low budget. Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, the Hitchcock directed thriller kept the viewer in suspense right from the point where James Stewart suspects foul play in the apartment across the yard to the end where ............. Laid up with a broken leg in a wheel chair, James Stewart witnesses an odd event at an apartment across the yard ...
...and with the help of Grace Kelly sets out to prove his assertion. Hitchcock, the master of suspense, weaves his way through a tale of many angles yet leaves enough clues to give the detective in the audience the chance to work it out for himself. As a matter of interest did anyone spot Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance very early in the film? You need to keep your eyes skinned to spot him because he can appear during the opening credits or very ...

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...Alfred Hitchcok's best movies. Rear Window is the story of a photographer: Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) who is recovering from a broken leg in a small apartment. He keeps himself busy by watching his neighbours all day long until he suspects one of his neighbours has committed murder. He tries to solve this mystery and suspicion with the help of his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) and an insurance company worker, Stella (Thelma Ritter). Jeffries asked ...
...presented their best acting in Rear window therefore for Stewart or Kelly fans this would be a must see. Hitchcock gets everything especially the suspence right. The timing of the movie is perfect too. To Hitchcock "the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder so you would not get boared during the film and it ends at the perfect place. Rear window could be said is one of Hitchcock's clearest movies. If you ...

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If I was asked to name my all time favourite film this without doubt would be it! Forget special effects and method acting this is all about direction direction direction! Who else but Hitchcock could work with a single low budget set and make one of the most gripping, mind-blowingly exciting films ever! Hitchcock was fascinated by the concept of the camera as voyeur and in this film he drags his audience into his fantasy forcing you onto a rollar ...
...ever scared me so much, you are absolutely powerless to do anything but watch! Like James Stewart's character we are immobilised and confined to one room, like him we view through the lens, together we stumble into the role of voyeur. Hitchcock controls everything we see, he forces us out of passivity by feeding us a restricted diet of tit bits. Unconsciously we start to analyse the information we are being fed, endeavouring to piece together the ...

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...blood, violence or sleazy woman. Rear Window has excelled in every field but amazongly never won a major oscar. What were the members of the acadmey thinking? Jimmy Stewart is regarded as one of the best actors to set foot on plannet earth. His character is allowed to develop throughout the film, which makes the viewer fall into the storyline. You can actually feel the fear Jimmy Stewart feels when Grace Kelly goes off to find the killer. Grace Kelly ...

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This is my favourite Hitchcock film, rated by most as one of his four masterpieces - we are dealing here with the height of suspense liberally dosed with Hitch's ideas about voyeurism with as usual various other fascinating undercurrents which you tend to pick up with successive viewings. It says alot about the director when it's set in one single apartment yet he keeps you on a knife edge from the beginning to end. There's no greater moment in cinema ...

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...did the ironing and since she had alot of ironing to do I now know this film off by heart! The DVD includes special bonus material including the makng of Rear Window which has some amazing footage of Hitchcock showing you the making of the set and staging. ...

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...top of my to-see list. Rear Window is a fantastic example of not needing blockbuster-style action sequences, bad language and special effects to make a great film, which have become standard in what is considered a 'success' in the 21st Century. The acting is superb. Jimmy Stewart plays a frustrated wheelchair bound photographer and Grace Kelly....well need I say more? Ok well if I must, she is beautiful as ever and the chemistry between her and ...
...to deliver. The supporting cast all have their quirks, the various residents of the flats surrounding Jimmy Stewarts each with their own stories are played out beautifully. It is the development of some of these characters, and of course the actors who portray them that really help to build up the tension but there is so much more that helpts to culminate in the films thrilling ending. We are often only given the view of the plot from the eyes ...

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Summary - Rear Window is directed by Alfred Hitchcock and is based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich. The story was adapted for the screen by John Michael Hayes who also wrote the screenplays for other Hitchcock films including To Catch A Thief. The Review - Rear Window is my favourite of the Hitchcock films I have seen and every time I watch it I always enjoy it. The film is witty, sad, suspenseful and intelligent. The first time I watched ...
...building tenants lives as we find out that there may have been a murder. Slowly Jeffries draws more people into his obsession as the film leads to one of the most memorable good against evil confrontations in cinema. Rear Window is a flawless classic that will always remain a favourite. ...

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