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| Movie Description The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (Jimmy Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbors through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad dancer, a songwriter, a lonely woman, and the Thorwalds (Raymond Burr and Irene Winston), a bickering couple, among others. But when Mrs. Thorwald disappears, Jefferies is sure that something's wrong. Soon, despite the warnings of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and his motherly nurse, Stella (Thelma Ritter), Jefferies has out his binoculars and telephoto lens and is studying his neighbor "like a bug under glass." However, looking in from the outside might not be as safe as Jefferies assumes. REAR WINDOW is not only a gripping story of murder and suspense, it is a celebrated allegory on the nature of film itself, a story in which the audience watches Jefferies watch the story unfold. The different windows represent the various different stories that are often told on film and also can be seen as representing the coming of television, as Jefferies can watch a multitude of "shows" from the comfort of his own apartment.
Notes DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.66 Single Side - Dual Layer Audio: Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - English Additional Release Material: Making Of Featurette - 1. Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes Trailer - 1. Rerelease Trailer Text/Photo Galleries: Script Stills/Photos - 1. Production Stills Production Notes Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew DVD-ROM Features:, Theatrical release: New York, August 1953. Hitchcock cameo: Hitchcock can be seen winding a clock in the apartment of the songwriter about 30 minutes into the film. REAR WINDOW was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1997. Hitchcock was nominated for the Best Director Oscar but lost out to Elia Kazan for ON THE WATERFRONT REAR WINDOW is number 42 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies. Snippets of other music heard in the film include Leonard Bernstein's score for the ballet FANCY FREE and the song "Mona Lisa." The film was remade in 1998 as a TV movie starring wheelchair-bound Christopher Reeve. Editorial Reviews Total Film - p.76 - Tom Dawson (03/01/2000) Entertainment Weekly - p.80 - Lisa Schwarzbaum (01/21/2000) Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (02/20/2000) USA Today - Mike Clark (03/16/2001) Empire - Ian Nathan (07/01/2008) | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||
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