Rear Window

Pros: Creative. Great build up of suspense. Jimmy Stewart.
Cons: Stagy at times.

Alfred Hitchcock has the reputation of being one of the very best film directors. I think it may be because of his unique approach to limiting the psychological and physical space of the protagonist. In Lifeboat, for example, he limited all the ...

Pros: The camera work, Stewart and Kelly, work of suspense, acting
Cons: none really

With Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock took an idea right from real life when he decided to direct his newest suspense film. The idea was to have an entire film unravel through the back window of a man's apartment. Seems like it couldn't be all that ...

Pros: Grace Kelly radiates. The suspense will save you money on fingernail clippers.
Cons: There are those who actually say this movie is boring!

In the same year that my mother was born, Rear Window was also born. Rear Window is one of many films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, with whom I am about as familiar as I am the back of Clark Gable's hand. I saw ...

Pros: Stewart and Kelly. Very entertaining movie.
Cons: None for me. Might be too slow for some viewers.

I love suspenseful movies when they are done well. I think Alfred Hitchcock was a master at creating well done suspenseful movies. I have seen and enjoyed many of his movies and even own a few on DVD. Rear Window< b>< i> is one of my favorites of ...

Pros: Hitchcock's production, great cast
Cons: Nothing Major

One of my goals for some time now has been to cover all the widely considered classics. Obviously these movies have been ubiquitously covered and talked about in the past so I’m going to change the format on classics a little. Please let me know if ...

Pros: Great acting; interesting second half
Cons: Very slow start

I have a weird relationship with Hitchcock's films. I've watched several now, and I've found the more praised the film is, the less I like it. The ones I've enjoyed the most are the ones that fewer people have heard of and hardly anyone talks about. ...

Pros: Unendurable suspense, Hitchcock's trademark wit and Grace Kelly at her finest hour--I'd peep in on this one any time!
Cons: A couple of bothersome POV "cheats" break the rules Hitchcock's established

Alfred Hitchcock brought America's living rooms into the theater with his 1954 white-knuckler Rear Window. Appealing to the Peeping Tom in every Dick and Jane, Hitch put audiences squarely in the voyeur's seat (or, in this case, wheelchair).
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Pros: Hitchcock's stylish direction, clever humourous touches
Cons: Why is Thorwald so obvious?

Nearly fifty years after its initial release, "Rear Window" remains one of the Master's best and most famous films. Only Hitchcock could devise a mystery seen entirely from the point of view of a man surveying the scenery from his apartment window and ma ...

Pros: Generally in the top dozen or so of the best movies ever.
Cons: None.

Recently I turned 21, and at 21 I was disgusted that I'd never seen Casablanca or Citizen Kane or even a Hitchcock movie. So I expressed my displeasure at my oldest friend and we decided since everyone in Brisbane (and that's ...

Pros: story; acting
Cons: L.B. figures it out too easily

*Section contains spoilers.   Plot Summary: Rear Window is about a man named L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) who is confined to his apartment because of a broken leg.  He is in a wheelchair.  He ...

Pros: Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, suspense, plot, acting
Cons: None

Very rarely does a movie sneak up on me and shatter all that I know and suspect...Even with mysterious Hitchcock in all his glory, I still have a keen awareness of what a movie or story is about to bring, and Rear Window shocked me and ...

Pros: Cast, cinematography
Cons: Burr, story, gimmick, pacing

I'm certain to be the first person (white, and in a wheelchair no less) to be lynched in years. Not only have I been known to defend "Star Wars- Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" , nearly everyone else's cinematic punching bag. Not only have I ...

Pros: Palpable suspense...
Cons: None

I think Hitchcock said it all when he was asked if he were to make one more film, what would it be like? He stated, "It would have a murder...with suspense, lots of lovely costumes, beautiful actors...and a joke or two." This is the formula...

Pros: deceptively important in Hitch's canon
Cons: few

One of Hitchcock’s most popular and least examined films, Rear Window has recently received a nice re-release on DVD and brought with it an issue that I find to be interesting in regards to the major schools of thought concerning the film. On the...

Pros: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, everything else
Cons: nothing off the top of my head

Based on the Cornell Woolrich short story ‘It Had to be Murder’ (penned under the name William Irish), director Alfred Hitchcock takes his long-time obsession with sexual voyeurism to an entirely new level. This time it revolves around a man left ...