In Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece, Jimmy Stewart plays a photographer confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg. Bored and stuck...
In Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece, Jimmy Stewart plays a photographer confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg. Bored and stuck in his apartment, he takes to spying on his neighbours. When one goes missing, he thinks murder is afoot.
Despite the warnings of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and his motherly nurse, Stella (Thelma Ritter), Jefferies uses his binoculars and telephoto lens to studying his neighbour "like a bug under glass." But looking in from the outside might not be as safe as Jefferies assumes.
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98 %133 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
95 %151,710 reviewsAudience score rating
"Hitchcock combines technical and artistic skills in a manner that makes this an unusually good piece of murder mystery entertainment."
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Variety
Variety"A strangely dream-like quality pervades ... and the implication that what's happening up on screen is merely the projection of the protagonist's anxieties."
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Total Film
Total Film"Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man."
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Time Out
Time Out"One of Alfred Hitchcock's inspired audience-participation films: watching it, you feel titillated, horrified, and, ultimately, purged."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"Its appeal, which goes beyond that of other, equally masterly Hitchcock works, remains undiminished."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Lovingly invests in suspense all through the film, banking it in our memory, so that when the final payoff arrives, the whole film has been the thriller equivalent of foreplay."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Witty, suspenseful, sad, funny and wise."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineRear Window | Details
- Runtime
- 112
- Genre
- Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
