Rear Window (1. 95. Background. Rear Window (1. Hitchcockian. visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism. John Michael Hayes'. Cornell Woolrich's (with pen- name William Irish) original. It Had to Be Murder. This film masterpiece was made entirely on one confined set. Paramount Studios - a realistic courtyard composed of 3. Manhattan (1. 25 W. Each of the tenants of the other apartments offer an observant. Remarkably. the camera angles are largely from the protagonist's own apartment, so the. Concurrent with the crime- thriller theme of mysterious activities. James Stewart), a magazine photographer who is impotently confined. Greenwich Village apartment and. He struggles, as he does with. Grace Kelly). In. This film - one of Hitchcock's greatest thrillers, especially.
Academy Award nominations. Oscars): Best Director, Best Screenplay (John Michael Hayes), Best. Color Cinematography (Robert Burks), and Best Sound Recording. Un- nominated. for her erotically- charged performance in this film as a rich society woman. Grace Kelly won the Best Actress Oscar in the same. The Country Girl (1. This was. her second of three films for Hitchcock (she had already made Dial M for. Murder (1. 95. 4) and would next star in To Catch a. Thief (1. 95. 5)), before leaving acting in 1. Prince Rainier. of Monaco. And this was Stewart's second of four appearances for Hitchcock. Rope (1. 94. 8), and would go on to be featured. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1. Vertigo. (1. 95. 8)). In brief, the protagonist and some of the neighboring characters. The Protagonist and His Apartment Complex's Neighbors L. Doyle (Wendell Corey), Jeff's old war- time buddy. The Story. Underneath the credits, jazz music plays as the bamboo shades rise slowly. Greenwich Village apartment. A camera pan follows. Tracking. back into the open apartment window, the occupant is asleep, sweating profusely. Visit Kijiji Classifieds to buy, sell, or trade almost anything! Used cars, pets, jobs, services, electronics, homes, boats for sale and more locally anywhere in Canada. The Runner He woke up one morning and decided to become someone else. Next door in the. Men, are you over 4. When you wake up in the morning, do you feel. Do you have that listless feeling? He stops shaving and tunes the radio to a music station. Then, the camera begins a continuous, almost two minute long panning camera. Across the way, an older couple are sleeping on an outside fire. They stir when. their alarm sounds, and below them, an athletic, scantily- clad blonde woman. Life is beginning to stir. The camera. returns to the apartment where it slowly reveals that the man is immobilized. His left leg is in a cast - already. Here lie the broken bones of L. Jefferies. The camera proceeds to explore L. A low- flying helicopter soon approaches. Jeff also observes his neighbors' activities outside. It is learned that seven weeks earlier, he. Dennis the Menace is an American sitcom based on the Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name and preceded The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday evenings on CBS from. Rear Window (1954) is an intriguing, brilliant, macabre Hitchcockian visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism. John Michael Hayes' screenplay. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern. A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. The cast will come off a week later. Between the side/rear walls of the apartment. At opposite ends of the courtyard are two artists, one. Jeff begs his editor to get him back on the job: Jeff: You've got to get me out of here. Six weeks sitting in a two- room. I'm gonna get married and then I'll never be able to go anywhere. Editor: It's about time you got married, before you turn into a lonesome. Jeff: Yeah, can't you just see me, rushin' home to a hot apartment to listen. Editor: Jeff, wives don't nag, they discuss. Jeff: Is that so, that so? Maybe in the high rent district they discuss, in. Editor: Well, um, you know best. Paralleling his conversation about the difficulties of marriage (more boredom. Thorwald. (Raymond Burr) in the opposite apartment return home from work (framed in. She scolds and disapproves of him. She condemns him for being more interested. Peeping Toms. used to be punished with blindness - she also asks a sexually- charged, euphemistic. You. know, in the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red- hot. Any of those bikini bombshells you're always watchin' worth. Oh dear, we've become a race of Peeping Toms. What. people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. How's that for a bit of home- spun philosophy? As she takes his temperature and prepares to set up a bed. Stella warns that his voyeurism will only lead to trouble. I can smell it ten. I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you. smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you. shouldn't see. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the. Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years. Dannemora.'. She's a beautiful young girl and you're a reasonably. Jeff: She expects me to marry her. Stella: That's normal. Jeff: I don't want to. Stella: That's abnormal. Jeff: I'm just not ready for marriage. Stella: Every man's ready for marriage when the right girl comes along. And. Lisa Fremont is the right girl for any man with half a brain who can get one. Jeff: Oh, she's all right. Stella: What did you do? Have a fight? Jeff: No. Stella: Her father loading up the shotgun? Jeff: What? Please, Stella. Stella: It's happened before you know. Some of the world's happiest marriages. He confesses that Lisa is too much of a . According to him. Stella also highlights one of. Jeff's hyperactive imagination will cause him. LOT of trouble. Jeff: No, she's just not the girl for me. Stella: Yeah, she's only perfect. Jeff: She's too perfect. She's too talented, she's too beautiful. She's. too sophisticated. She's too everything but what I want. Stella: Is, um, what you want something you can discuss? Jeff: Well, it's very simple, Stella. She belongs to that rarified atmosphere. Park Avenue, you know. Expensive restaurants, literary cocktail parties.. Can. you imagine her tramping around the world with a camera bum who never has. If she was only ordinary. Stella: You ever gonna get married? Jeff: I'll probably get married one of these days, and when I do, it's gonna. I need a woman who's willing.. So the honest thing for me to do is just to. Stella: Yeah, I can hear you now. You're a perfectly. Jefferies, I'm not an. I can tell you one thing. When a man and a woman see. Like. a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like. Jeff: There's an intelligent way to approach marriage. Stella: Intelligence! Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble. Modern marriage! Jeff: Now we've progressed emotionally. Stella: Baloney! Once, it was see somebody, get excited, get married. Now. it's read a lot of books, fence with a lot of four- syllable words, psychoanalyze. Jeff: People have different emotional levels. Stella: When I married Miles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. Now would you fix me a sandwich please? Stella: Yes, I will. And I'll spread a little common sense on the bread. The bridegroom completes their marital ritual. They kiss, and then close the. A calliope rendition of the romantic ballad . She rouses and awakens him from his sleep. She is a stylish. And she would later indulge in danger and. Jeff believed that he was solely capable. It's right off the Paris plane. You. think it will sell?. A steal at $1,1. 00 dollars. They ought to list that dress on the Stock Exchange. Although he thinks it's only a . Jefferies. in a cast. She finds an old and worn cigarette box in his apartment. I'm sending. up a plain flat silver one with just your initials engraved. She opens the door to a. Twenty- One Club who delivers their lobster. Jeff is unable to pop the cork. Jeff's impotence. To keep him in New York. But Jeff snubs her. He notes how her. He ultimately rejects the new image. Lisa: You can't buy that kind of publicity. Jeff: I know. Lisa: Someday you may want to open up a studio of your own here. Jeff: How would I run it, from say, Pakistan? Lisa: Jeff, isn't it time you came home? You could pick your assignment. Jeff: Well, I wish there was one I wanted. Lisa: Make the one you want. Jeff: You mean leave the magazine? Lisa: Yes. Jeff: For what? Lisa: For yourself and me. I could get you a dozen assignments tomorrow - . Well now, don't laugh, I could do it. Jeff: That's what I'm afraid of. Can you see me driving down to the fashion. Will that make. a hit? Lisa: I could see you looking very handsome and successful in a dark blue. Jeff: Let's stop talking nonsense, shall we, hmm? Lisa (hurt): I guess I'd better start setting up for dinner. To escape from their romantic tensions, Jeff turns to the window again. Jeff's neighbors are only known. Across the apartments in Jeff's view, a lonely. Judith Evelyn), dubbed 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' sets a table. She. fantasizes a gentleman caller's entrance and pantomimes his arrival. She ushers. him to the table, and then toasts. He is involved with his own voyeuristic. Lisa. With his back to Lisa. Jeff raises his glass in a toast to 'Miss Lonelyhearts.' His gesture is unanswered. Lisa. The woman sadly buries her head in her hands at the. Lisa returns and joins him to watch and sympathize: Jeff: 'Miss Lonelyhearts.' Well, at least that's something you'll. Lisa: Oh? You can see my apartment from here, all the way up on 6.
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