from Paramount Pictures
Directed by
Alfred
Hitchcock
Starring
James
Stewart (L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries)
Grace
Kelly (Lisa Carol Fremont)
Thelma
Ritter (Stella)
Raymond
Burr (Lars Thorwald)
Wendell Corey (Thomas J. Doyle)
Judith Evelyn (Miss Lonely Hearts)
Ross Bagdasarian (Songwriter)
Georgine Darcy (Miss Torso)
Sara Berner (Woman on Fire Escape)
Frank Cady (Man on Fire Escape)
Jesslyn Fax (Miss Hearing Aid)
Rand Harper (Honeymooner)
Irene Winston (Mrs. Thorwald)
Havis Davenport (Newlywed)
Jerry Antes (Dancer)
Barbara Bailey (Choreographer)
Benny Bartlett (Miss Torso's Friend)
Iphigenie Castiglioni (Woman with Bird)
Marla English (Party Girl)
Bess Flowers (Woman With Poodle)
Fred Graham (Stunt Detective)
Kathryn Grant (Party Girl)
Len Hendry ( Policeman)
Harry Landers (Young Man)
Alan Lee (Landlord)
Mike Mahoney (Policeman)
Eddie Parker
Dick Simmons
Ralph Smiley (Carl)
Anthony Warde (Detective)
Written by
John Michael Hayes
Cornell
Woolrich (story)
Original Music by
Bernard
Herrmann
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 Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder.
Photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is, in fact, a voyeur by trade, a professional photographer sidelined by an accident while on assignment. His immersion in the human drama (and comedy) visible from his window is a by-product of boredom, underlined by the disapproval of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and a wisecracking visiting nurse (Thelma Ritter). Yet when the invalid wife of Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) disappears, Jeff enlists the two women to help him to determine whether she's really left town, as Thorwald insists, or been murdered.
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