Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (75th anniversary)

75 years young! Hitchcock’s psychological crime thriller starring Joan Chandler & James Stewart is based on the 1929 Patrick Hamilton play & is one of Hitch’s most innovative & visually arresting pictures, as well as being the first in Technicolour. Notable for taking place in “real time” & edited so as to appear as four long shots by stitching together long takes, this film was utterly revolutionary at the time, helping to earn Hitch his deserved reputation. 

The plot revolves around two men, who murder their classmate, hide the body in their apartment and invite his family over for dinner, as a ploy to test the perfection of their crime. Mesmerising, clever & proof of Hitch’s cinematic vision.

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Year 1948

Genre(s) Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Cert PG

Director Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart, John Dall.

Runtime 1hr 20min

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