Rope Movie Review 1948

In New York City, two gay college students murder a friend for kicks and store the body in a living room trunk. They further insult the dead by using the trunk as the buffet table and inviting his parents to the dinner party in his honor. Very dark humor is the theme in Hitchcock's first color film, which he innovatively shot in uncut ten-minute takes, with the illusion of a continuous scene maintained with tricky camera work. Based on the Patrick Hamilton play and on the Leopold-Loeb murder case.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 81 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Film Noir, Adapted from a Play, Gays, Director/Star Teams: Hitchcock & Stewart

Screenplay

Arthur Laurents

Cast

James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier

Cinematography

William V. Skall, Joseph Valentine

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Music

David Buttolph

Other

William Ziegler

Producer

Alfred Hitchcock Sidney Bernstein