Rear Window (1954)
- Starring:
- James Stewart, Grace Kelly, (more)
- Director(s):
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
- Category:
- Mystery & Suspense
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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 professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 115 mins
Complete Cast of Rear Window
- James Stewart - L.B. Jeffries (Jeff)
- Wendell Corey - Thomas J. Doyle, detective
- Raymond Burr - Lars Thorwald
- Georgine Darcy - Miss Torso, the dancer
- Frank Cady - Fire Escape Man
- Jesslyn Fax - Miss Hearing Aid
- Havis Davenport - Newlywed
- Mike Mahoney - Policeman
- Bennie Bartlett - Miss Torso's Friend
- Marla English - Party Girl (uncredited)
- Kathryn Grant - Party Girl (uncredited)
- Bess Flowers - Woman with Poodle
- Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. - Songwriter
- Anthony Warde - Detective
- Grace Kelly - Lisa Carol Fremont
- Thelma Ritter - Stella, the nurse
- Judith Evelyn - Miss Lonely Heart
- Sara Berner - Fire Escape Woman
- Rand Harper - Honeymooner
- Irene Winston - Mrs. Thorwald
- James Cornell - Man
- Harry Landers - Young Man
- Iphigenie Castiglioni - Bird Woman
- Len Hendry - Policeman
- Alan Lee - Landlord
- Ralph Smiley - Carl the Waiter
- Fred Graham - Stunt Detective (uncredited)
- Jerry Antes - Dancer
- Director(s):
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writer(s):
- John Michael Hayes
- Producer(s):
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Mild Violence, Adult Situations)
- Categories:
- Mystery & Suspense
- 1998 - American Film Institute - 100 Greatest American Movies
- 1997 - Library of Congress - U.S. National Film Registry
- 1954 - National Board of Review - Best Actress
- 1954 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Actress
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