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Mood:
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- Witnessing a CrimeInvestigationPsychologicalIsolationVoyeurismDisabilityConfinedCrimes more...
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Genres:
- MysteryThrillerCrime
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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- New YorkIndoorsUrban
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- Award WinnerBlockbusterClassicCritically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpiece
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- Twists and Turns
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- Based on Short Story
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- Mild Violent Content
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Rear Window, 1954
English
USA
Profile of Rear Window
Rear Window can be described as mind bending, clever, and stylized. The plot revolves around voyeurism, disabilities, and witnessing a crime. The main genres are thriller, mystery, and crime. In terms of style, Rear Window involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, indoors and in an urban environment. Rear Window is located in New York. It takes place in the 1950s. It is derived from a short story. Rear Window has received attention for being a classic, a masterpiece, and essential viewing. Note that it involves mild violent content.
Summary of Rear Window
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 1 August 1954 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
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as L. B. Jefferies
as Lisa Carol Fremont
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