Rope
Overview
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.
Reviews (6)
tmdb47633491 (Rated: 9)
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 (Rated: 7)
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 (Rated: 7)
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 (Rated: 7)
Somebody should have stopped Hitchcock from all this innovating business…
James (Rated: 7)
It ends with a shot Like no film ever did that.
Recommendation & Similar
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Frenzy (1972)
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Notorious (1946)
Marnie (1964)
The Birds (1963)
Spellbound (1945)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
