Rear Window

Rear Window

  • Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writer: John Michael Hayes,Cornell Woolrich
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: September 1, 1954
  • Runtime: 1h 52min
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
  • "Rear Window" is a mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart , Grace Kelly , Thelma Ritter and others.
    The film tells the story of a photojournalist, Jeffery, who monitors his neighbors and peeks at their daily lives in order to kill time, and thus sees through the story of a wife-killing case   . On August 1, 1954, the film was released in the United States   .

    Details

    • Release date September 1, 1954
    • Filming locations Stage 18, Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $36,764,313

    Gross worldwide

    $37,034,514

    Movie reviews

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    • By Maureen 2022-06-16 13:30:32

      Rear Window--From The Rear Window To The Reality Show

      "What do you want from me?" The wife murderer in the dark in the panorama asked the male protagonist who had spied on his murder in the dark.

      The two are the surrogates of the voyeur and the voyeur, and the confrontation between the two is a questioning of the voyeur.

    • By Seamus 2022-06-16 13:13:36

      Rear Window--Noted Some Ingenious Of The Movie

      When "immorality" becomes "moral", people seem to have reason to peep. For the male protagonist, his environment is very small and his movement is restricted. But when he peered at others with a telescope, the pattern and environment were magnified. In the beginning, everything was in a normal state. Objective lenses were often used to photograph and portray the...

    • By Amely 2022-06-16 13:05:21

      Rear Window--Some Doubts About The Movie

      1. What did the nurse say to the inspector in the end?

      2. The nurse finally said, "No, I don't want to see one piece." Why is that expression behind us? (Some people say that the nurse is an accomplice, but why does she help the male protagonist solve the case?)

    • By Lupe 2022-04-24 07:01:01

      Cameras: an extension of voyeurism

      The telescope cannot meet the needs of freeze-frame preservation, the camera cannot extend the probe of desire, and the telephoto camera has achieved both. When the male protagonist took out the lens and installed the camera, I really couldn't help but feel happy. The male protagonist's window is a viewfinder, and in this viewfinder, the daily life of the neighbors can be seen. Of course, everyone's window can be a viewfinder. In order to dissipate the heat (desire), people open the window;...

    • By Lola 2022-04-24 07:01:01

      Windows and walls as we see and as we guess

      read it twice. The princess is so beautiful. This is a short and concise logical movie with superb content. Let me begin to have the urge to peep at the windows of my neighbor's house. . . In fact, the part of the truth leaked from the window and the fact that the wall blocked it is just as we usually think we see and guess. In reality, people's understanding of many things is to conjecture and overthrow those parts that they have not seen through the flattening of the fragments they have...

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    • By Kaya 2023-09-27 06:29:45

      It turned out to be Edith Head again.... E God will definitely have it when he...

    • By Kole 2023-09-20 15:34:58

      The camera language and scene scheduling were pretty good at the front. I saw the climax and went to eat. Later, the aura disappeared, but the previous viewing effect was not bad. Although the ending was very disappointing, it is not a very famous movie considering the...

    • By Jeramy 2023-08-05 03:44:20

      Compared with the previous "Hot Hands and Destroying Flowers", this film is two grades apart in terms of handling suspense and controlling audience information to create tension. Slightly...

    • By Lynn 2023-07-30 05:34:30

      I really want to know what is in the garden, and what is hidden in the coat box at the...

    • By Ray 2023-07-16 16:13:51

      The rear window is the hole in the human heart to peer out. / It should belong to low budget, the scene is almost unchanged / The plot development is exciting / I regret not seeing the scene of Hitchcock appearing / The camera cuts between the male protagonist who blocks half of his face with the camera lens and the neighborhood where the story keeps developing / Lighting / use of scenery / re-watch it!...

    Movie plot

    Photojournalist Jeffery broke a leg in an accident, and now he has to spend a boring day in a wheelchair as he travels a lot. In the midsummer of New York, the neighbors around him open their windows day and night. Jeffery, who is free, always likes to observe the neighbors around him through the windows. A glamorous dancer is wearing a bra and shorts and doing housework with beautiful dance steps every day; a composer who lives alone...
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    Movie Highlights

    During the one-month filming process, Qiaoqin Darcy, who played Miss Toso, stayed on the set all day, and also lived in the apartment where the movie characters lived during the break.
    Except for the scenes of a couple near the end of the film and the scene where the dead dog was found, the other scenes were shot through the windows of Jeffrey's apartment. During the filming, Hitchcock worked in Jeffrey's apartment. The other actors in...
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    Piercing lens

    When Lisa turned to the window in a green suit, her blouse was visibly messy. After that, the camera turned to the apartment of the man playing the piano, and when the camera was again aimed at Lisa, her blouse had already been arranged.
    After Stella gave Jeffrey a note, Jeffrey returned to the wheelchair. Between the two shots, the buttons of Jeffrey's open pajamas were fastened.
    After Lisa watched Mr. Su pack up the suitcase, the...
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    Evaluation action

    "Rear Window" is one of the masterpieces of suspense films. The film successfully created an atmosphere of horror and suspense, and vividly unearthed the voyeuristic psychology and desire hidden deep in the individual's heart (Timeline Review)   . The film contains all the skills and techniques that Hitchcock is good at, and it is also the film with the most vivid expression of the "voyeur" theme. The film not only allows the audience...
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    Movie quotes

    • Tom Doyle: You didn't see the killing or the body. How do you know there was a murder?

      L.B. Jefferies: Because everything this fellow's done has been suspicious: trips at night in the rain, knifes, saws, trunks with rope, and now this wife that isn't there anymore.

      Tom Doyle: I admit it does have a mysterious sound. But it could be any number of things for the wife disappearing. Murder is the least part.

      L.B. Jefferies: Now, Doyle, don't tell me that he's just an unemployed magician amusing the neighborhood with his sleight of hand. Don't tell me that.

    • [first lines]

      Voice on radio: Men, are you over 40? When you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired and rundown? Do you have that listless feeling...

      [the camera pans around the courtyard; cut to later in the day]

      L.B. Jefferies: [answering phone] Jefferies.

      Gunnison: Congratulations, Jeff!

      L.B. Jefferies: For what?

      Gunnison: For getting rid of that cast!

      L.B. Jefferies: Who said I was getting rid of it?

      Gunnison: This is Wednesday; seven weeks from the day you broke your leg. Yes or no?

      L.B. Jefferies: Gunnison, how did you ever get to be such a big editor with such a small memory?

      Gunnison: By thrift, industry, and hard work... and, uh, catching the publisher with his secretary. Did I get the wrong day?

      L.B. Jefferies: No... no, wrong week. *Next* Wednesday I emerge from this plaster cocoon.

    • L.B. Jefferies: I get myself half killed for you and you reward me by stealing my assignments.

      Gunnison: I didn't ask you to stand in the middle of that automobile racetrack.

      L.B. Jefferies: You asked for a, something dramatically different. You got it.

      Gunnison: So did you.