Also Known As: Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Company: Paramount Pictures / Patron Inc.
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Plot: Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
Cast and Character: James Stewart as L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies / Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont / Wendell Corey as Det. Lt. Thomas J. Doyle / Thelma Ritter as Stella / Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald / Judith Evelyn as Miss Lonelyhearts / Ross Bagdasarian as Songwriter / Georgine Darcy as Miss Torso / Sara Berner as Woman on Fire Escape / Frank Cady as Man on Fire Escape / Jesslyn Fax as Miss Hearing Aid / Rand Harper as Newlywed / Irene Winston as Mrs. Emma Thorwald / Havis Davenport as Newlywed
Creators: n/A
Description: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Genres: Mystery / Thriller
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
MPAA: PG
Opening Weekend: $15,172
Poster: posters/0047396.jpg
Rating: 8.6
Release Date: 29 January 1955 (Japan)
Runtime: 112 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: Seeing isn't always believing. (1983 re-release)
Title: Rear Window
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/
Votes: 203,076
Writers: John Michael Hayes / Cornell Woolrich
Year: 1954
Rear Window got rated 8.6.
About the movie: Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
Rashômon got rated 8.4.
About the movie: A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashômon that he ...
Quadrophenia got rated 7.1.
About the movie: London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', he feels free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world.
Pretty Baby got rated 6.6.
About the movie: In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitué of the whorehouse. One day, Madame Nell auctions Violet's virginity and the winner pays the fortune of US$ 400 to spend the night with the girl. Then Hattie marries a wealthy client and moves to Saint Louis, leaving Violet in the brothel alone. Violet decides to marry Bellocq and she moves to his house. Until the day that Hattie, who has overcome her past, comes to Bellocq's house with the intention to take Violet with her.
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