REAR WINDOW (1954)
Special Features: 70th Anniversary
Perhaps Hitchcock's most suspenseful film, masterful in its visual storytelling, with James Stewart giving one of the best performances of the 1950s. Having broken his leg on assignment, Jeff (Stewart), a globetrotting photojournalist, is laid up in his Manhattan apartment and bored stiff. Despite admonitions from his glamorous girlfriend (Grace Kelly), his favorite diversion is to spy on his neighbors, framed screen-like in their windows across the courtyard from his. But when one half of a constantly bickering couple mysteriously disappears, Jeff suspects he may be witness to a murder. DIR/SCR/PROD Alfred Hitchcock; SCR John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder." U.S., 1954, color, 112 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, February 23, 2024
Genre: Mystery thriller