Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
John Dall
as Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger
as Phillip Morgan
James Stewart
as Rupert Cadell
Joan Chandler
as Janet Walker
Douglas Dick
as Kenneth Lawrence
Edith Evanson
as Mrs. Wilson
Constance Collier
as Mrs. Anita Atwater
Cedric Hardwicke
as Mr. Henry Kentley
Dick Hogan
as David Kentley
Alfred Hitchcock
as Man Walking in Street After Opening Credits (uncredited)
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Can't believe I'm only seeing this now. It's great. Basically a play. There couldn't have been more than 15 shots. Ending had me in tears. Shouts out...
barrymost
Rope was the first Alfred Hitchcock/James Stewart collaboration. They would go on to do "Rear Window", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and finally, "Vertigo". This being the first, and also a kind of experimental film on Hitchcock's part, it is the weakest of the four. Shot as a play, mainly in one ...
CinemaSerf
Now I may be completely off beam here, but there is something ever so slightly homo-erotic about the relationship between John Dall ("Brandon") and Farley Granger ("Philip") in this rather clunky murder tale that is less of a mystery and more of a bragging exercise. The two, having murdered their co...
James
Somebody should have stopped Hitchcock from all this innovating business…...
James
**It ends with a shot** Like no film ever did that....