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Name: Rope
Released: 1948-8-26
Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier

Rope

PG
1h 20m
1948

93%

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James Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall star in this macabre spellbinder, which was inspired by a real-life case of murder. Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the 'perfect murder', their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer:

Alfred Hitchcock

Writer:

Arthur Laurents

Cast:

James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, Dick Hogan

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: As formally audacious as it is narratively brilliant, Rope connects a powerful ensemble in service of a darkly satisfying crime thriller from a master of the genre.

Reviews

Deep Focus Review

Brian Eggert

This lesser-celebrated feature by the Master of Suspense remains one of his most fascinating pictures because it aligns with his thematic interests yet deviates from his usual formal methods.

It grips the audience from the very beginning, and it radiates the same morbid cleverness that would define Hitchcock’s later films.

The film’s biggest strength is in its tantalizing plot. “Rope” is a very good movie that suffers only from its somewhat false sense of editing, but overall benefits from Hitchcock’s masterful direction.

Though not quite a horror film, Rope is the kind of murder mystery that would pave the way for more explicit psychologically-motivated thrillers, as well as being a technical landmark in its use of Technicolor and extended takes.

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Gay Community News (Boston)

Michael Bronski