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Rope Details

1948 Certificate PG
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Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with Nietzchean philosophy by their .. Read more

Starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Genres Thriller

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Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with Nietzchean philosophy by their kindly professor James Stewart, Granger and Dall kill a third friend just for the thrill of it. The boys hide the body in an antique chest in the middle of their posh apartment, then perversely arrange to hold a dinner party around the chest, inviting the victim's family, friends and fiancee (Joan Chandler), as well as their intellectual role-model Stewart. As the guests wander obliviously around the sealed chest, the killers make snippy, veiled comments about their deed--never going so far as to reveal the existence of the body nor their involvement in the murder. As all the guests file out, however, professor Stewart begins to suspect that something is amiss. In Rope, Hitchcock attempted the daunting technical challenge of filming the entire picture in one long, seemingly uninterrupted take. Actually, there are several edits in the movie: since a reel of film was divided into two ten-minute minireels back in 1948, the internal reel-breaks are fudged by having a dark object briefly obscure the camera lens, sustaining the illusion that no editing has taken place.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Reese Witherspoon, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 1 hr 17 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Collections 100 Top Thrillers
Genres Thriller
Language DVD: English
Released Production year: 1948

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    • 2 stars out of 4  

      An effective piece of Grand Guignol on the stage, this seemed rather tasteless when set in a New York skyscraper, especially when the leading role of the investigator was miscast and Hitch had saddled himself with the ten-minute take, a short-lived techni

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      Only Hitchcock.....

      Not only is the film shot in real time and on one set, but it is also uses only one camera shot without cuts! This means one take for the entire film, and yet ... read more »

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      Based on a true story. Not as suspenseful as other Hitchcock films, but entertaining.

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      I recently got a Hitchcock box set and this was the first one I reached for. Brilliantly filmed with long takes cut together beautifully making it almost look ... read more »

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