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Rear Window

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Rear Window
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PG,1hr 52min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
August 1, 1954
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey  ...more
Synopsis: Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
On the surface a comic thriller about a photographer and the crime he thinks took place across the courtyard, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) turns into an interrogation of voyeurism and movie-viewing. Keeping the camera in Jeff's apartment (except for a couple of shots near the climax), Hitchcock limits the audience's view to what Jeff can see and hear from his immobilized perch. He is free ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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James Stewart
L.B. Jeffries (Jeff)
Grace Kelly
Lisa Carol Fremont
Wendell Corey
Thomas J. Doyle, detective
Thelma Ritter
Stella, the nurse
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A historic look at our favorite women's Oscar fashion moments ... from luminous to loony By Kathleen...
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