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There's a lot of discussion about which is the best Alfred Hitchcock movie. I've seen them all, but I keep coming back his 1954 classic, Rear Window. This movie has everything: a dashing hero, a beautiful woman, a dastardly villain . . . and suspense so thick you can't help but squirm when watching. James Stewart plays L.B. Jeffries, a wheelchair bound photographer and peeping tom who's convalescing in his apartment. His only company are occasional visits by an ex Army buddy of his, a funny and nosey nurse (Thelma Ritter), and his incredibly gorgeous girlfriend, Lisa Fremont, played by the radiant Grace Kelly in her most smart, sexy and alluring film role. To pass the time, Jeffries looks out his window at the other apartment buildings. That's when he begins to suspect that there's been a murder in one of the other apartments. The target of his suspicion is Lars Thorwald, menacingly played by Raymond Burr. When Fremont gets involved, all bets are off. I love this film's sense of danger. It still scares the hell out of me each time I see it, and I never fail to fall in love with Grace Kelly. Hitchcock picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Director for this great movie. "Let's go down there and find out what's buried in that garden."Recent Posts
10/15/09
Movie Review: Rear Window
There's a lot of discussion about which is the best Alfred Hitchcock movie. I've seen them all, but I keep coming back his 1954 classic, Rear Window. This movie has everything: a dashing hero, a beautiful woman, a dastardly villain . . . and suspense so thick you can't help but squirm when watching. James Stewart plays L.B. Jeffries, a wheelchair bound photographer and peeping tom who's convalescing in his apartment. His only company are occasional visits by an ex Army buddy of his, a funny and nosey nurse (Thelma Ritter), and his incredibly gorgeous girlfriend, Lisa Fremont, played by the radiant Grace Kelly in her most smart, sexy and alluring film role. To pass the time, Jeffries looks out his window at the other apartment buildings. That's when he begins to suspect that there's been a murder in one of the other apartments. The target of his suspicion is Lars Thorwald, menacingly played by Raymond Burr. When Fremont gets involved, all bets are off. I love this film's sense of danger. It still scares the hell out of me each time I see it, and I never fail to fall in love with Grace Kelly. Hitchcock picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Director for this great movie. "Let's go down there and find out what's buried in that garden."
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I'll have to watch this again because I'm spotty on the plot, but I do remember this was one of the last films we watched in my Film 101 class Junior year of college. It is especially poignant because that professor passed away VERY suddenly over the winter break and the advanced course was led by some jackass who claimed Japanese anime was the epitome of film evolution.
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