Rope

Pros: Interesting plot. Jimmy Stewart.
Cons: Could be too slow for some viewers. Could have been more suspenseful.

Alfred Hitchcock became known for creating several wonderful, suspenseful movies. I have seen and enjoyed several of them and even own a few. There are still some of his movies that I haven rsquo;t seen. I recently watched Rope< b>< i> for the ...

Pros: Very intense, macabre, lesser-known Hitchcock Great; James Stewart
Cons: ...not sure...

A psycho at work recommended this movie to me--he's a Competition Juggler with several State Championships under his belt, and his a really nice guy, but my only other conversation with him about movies was when he talked about "Full Metal Jacket," and...

Pros: Acting, unique directorial approach makes us part of the movie
Cons: Slight overacting at times

I must have started with some of Hitchcock's weirder efforts. I almost completely wrote him off after seeing three of his "classics" that I thought were pretty bad. But I kept on and began to find some gems. The latest of those is Rope, a study ...

Pros: It is short
Cons: Even the best make mistakes, Rope counts for about a dozen

Glancing at the reviews I can perhaps expect that what follows will not be particularly popular. Rope is famous for its one continuous “take.”  Um . . . to quote a professor of mine who loved movies but didn’t care for ...

Pros: Calmly suspenseful, James Stewart is impressive yet again, Dall is a monster
Cons: Some small talk, the setting can become tiresome, fairly predictable

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Rope were one of Hitchcock's most intimidating projects. You can dazzle people with birds and baffle them with rear window stalkers, but very few appreciate the vision and talent it takes to manipulate the ...

Pros: Cast, Screenplay, dialog, everything except the moralistic speech at the end
Cons: The moralistic speech at the end

Alfred Hitchcock, the supreme master of the thriller genre, has probably been cussed and discussed more than any film maker in the past century. Now recognized as a genius, he was always one, recognized or not. New editions of this unusual...

Pros: Excellent writing. Ambitious filmmaking. Tense. Every minute counts.
Cons: Some people really do kill just to see what it’s like and prove they can.

While much can be said about the differences between film and literature, the fact remains that the quality of all but the most experimental of films is first and foremost dependent on its screenplay. Even a director like Alfred Hitchcock, who at times ...

Pros: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, illusion of one continuous shot
Cons: lack of supporting cast

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, the first of what would eventually become four collaborative efforts with actor and close friend James Stewart, was based not only on a popular British play, Rope’s End (the re-titling given to the play when it came ...

Pros: Great companion to "Rear Window"
Cons: No cameo

I could not help but dig the following things about "Rope":

* Naturally it's pretty neat how the movie is a series of eight-minute takes (the maximum length of a film reel in 1948). But what's even neater is how, in one of the takes,...

Pros: Script, cinematography, suspense
Cons: The acting styles seem a little dated at times

Rope begins with two men strangling a third. They put the body in a large trunk, and begin preparing to host a dinner party for the dead man's friends and relatives... Such a beginning could only be the work of Alfred Hitchcock.

The...

Pros: Great acting and dialogue
Cons: Not quite as suspenseful as his others.

Rope is one of Hitchcock's guinea pig films in a way, and one that is most responsible for making him the Master of Suspense. Rope was Hitchcock's first film in technicolor, the first time to work with James Stewart, and the first as an...

Pros: engaging, fascinating, disturbing
Cons: a little dated

Rope was Alfred Hitchcock's first film as a director independent of the suffocating studio system. Based in concept on the Leopold and Loeb murders, the film centers on two men who murder a friend of theirs for fun. To make the crime more...

Pros: interesting experiment, visually appealing, some beautiful technique
Cons: as drama it sags in the middle, as social document it stinks

I know there must be a different versions of Rope out there, because the movie I saw isn’t the movie everybody else talks about.

It’s kind of the same. . . . Two swelegant smarty-pants college boys kill a third college boy with a...

Pros: Great Performances, ingenious script and plot
Cons: May be too abstract for conventional viewers

An absolutely magnificent experiment in film making by Alfred Hitchcock.

The film tells the tale of two young homosexuals (Farley Granger and John Dall in fine form) who in order to obtain intellectual thrills and enlightenment murder a...

Pros: Definitive Suspense
Cons: Not as exciting/scary as some of Hitch's other works

To begin, I bought an Alfred Hitchcock box set a few weeks ago. I've gotten about halfway through it. The great thing is that I knew nothing about the plots of over half the movies in it.

So far, my personal favorite is Rope. And this is...