Rope (1948)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

drama film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 3,032 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two wealthy young men strangle a former classmate to prove their intellectual superiority. They then host a dinner party with the victim's body hidden in a chest in the same room, using the event to taunt their old professor.

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What happens

Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same title by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched-together long takes. It is the second of Hitchcock's "limited setting" films, the first being Lifeboat (1944). The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. The film received mixed reviews and performed poorly at the box office upon its release, but its reception has grown more favorable over the years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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