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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 16, 2018 0:01:21 GMT
Probably my first Hitchcock … and I still love it after many many (many) viewings.
I was reading a book of short stories and one of them seemed familiar... yep... the Woolrich ! Worth the read !
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Post by wmcclain on Sept 16, 2018 0:32:31 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 16, 2018 1:27:37 GMT
I believe this was my first Hitchcock film as well although it could have been N/NW. It's been a long time ago so I can't remember exactly. It's still one of the best. Funny, I never put two and two together that every person in the apartments is dealing with a different stage in romantic relationships and is represented. Very interesting. I love the use of light at night in the apartments. The red glow of the cigarette Thornberg smokes in his dark apartment, the red glow of the hall light next to Thornberg's apartment, the shadows being cast in multiple scenes. It's beautiful and haunting. This film and Rope really use light to a great advantage. In Rope, you can tell how time passes due to the sun setting in the background window of the apartment. Day to evening.... I love the set design, it's amazing. Wendell Corey was excellent as Jeff's friend and detective buddy. One of the less recognized roles from the film, but very important.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 16, 2018 1:37:23 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Sept 16, 2018 2:52:54 GMT
I appreciate it better than I used to. It's good but I never quite loved it like other Hitchcock movies.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 16, 2018 2:58:35 GMT
Fun years later realizing that The Songwriter, Ross Bagdasarian, became David Seville of Alvin and the Chipmunks "fame" Lars Thorwald was Perry Mason ! and that the man on the fire escape (with the little dog) ![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzAwM2I5ZGItNDFlMC00MmVjLTg3MGUtZDM3ZDQzYmRhYzVhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjE5MzM3MjA@._V1_.jpg) was played by Frank Cady = Sam Drucker on Green Acres and Petticoat Junction !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 16, 2018 3:43:20 GMT
Gleaned from the Rear Window trivia page, this little tidbit "The Cornell Woolrich short story "The Boy Cried Murder", upon which the film is based, had previously been adapted as The Window (1949)." Too bad it's incorrect ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Summary of The Window (1949)To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him. as petrolino said , Rear Window is based on It Had to be Murder … archive.org/details/ItHadToBeMurder
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 16, 2018 3:59:50 GMT
More on The Window …
Director Richard Franklin wanted to do a "thriller for kids" in 1984 and intended to do a remake of The Window (1949), based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "The Boy Cried Murder", which Universal had acquired the rights to. However, the writers morphed the story into what became Cloak & Dagger (1984).
sorry to get off track but we'll get back to Rear Window … the link posted above is a BBC reading of the original short story "It Had to be Murder".
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 16, 2018 4:04:25 GMT
A+ ...my #18 all time. Marvelous film. Infinitely re-watchable with a zest for life to it all. The people & vistas are all eye candy, & I love the hot summertime environment, a nice escape on a dreary dark day.
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Post by telegonus on Sept 16, 2018 16:53:37 GMT
Rear Window's a beautiful film to behold despite (in spite of?)its dark story. Its picture magazine look nicely reflects the profession of its protagonist. He might have shot the film himself. Grace Kelly is so lovely to look at, so poised, I can't help but ask the question "was she ever immature?". Even when she was in her early twenties she came off as wholly adult, capable of holding her own on screen with players much older than herself.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 14, 2019 19:50:21 GMT
It was my first Hitch movie, and one of his finest. ![](https://aptmetaphor.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/image.jpg)
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 10, 2019 15:22:15 GMT
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Post by geode on Jul 28, 2019 13:49:21 GMT
When I was a kid I really liked it. Then fir several years it was unavailable for viewing. In reissue I saw it as an adult and found I had a problem with the protagonist. Raymond Burr's character finally confronts him and asks why he is being a busybody and to be honest I saw his point.... now decades later I can't find the interest to watch it again.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 28, 2019 16:19:48 GMT
When I was a kid I really liked it. Then fir several years it was unavailable for viewing. In reissue I saw it as an adult and found I had a problem with the protagonist. Raymond Burr's character finally confronts him and asks why he is being a busybody and to be honest I saw his point.... now decades later I can't find the interest to watch it again. Until Hitchcock's penultimate film, Frenzy, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries was probably the crankiest and most contrary protagonist the director had presented. It's fair to cut him a little slack. Being immobilized for weeks in a wheelchair and a cast up to your hip would try the patience of most, but it's especially acute for a globe-trotting adventurer like Jeff who's accustomed to being on the move, and he tends to take it out on those closest to him: his old combat buddy Doyle and, most pointedly, Lisa. She wants commitment and permanence from him that he, fearing being tied down and loss of independence, is unwilling to give. These feelings are no doubt aggravated by the circumstances of his recovery, so she comes in for his biggest shares of emotional abuse. Where Thorwald's concerned, it isn't confirmed until the very end whether he's actually guilty, and Hitchcock perversely puts viewers in the position of seeing everything through the eyes of the film's least attractive character, rendering the man supposed to be a killer almost sympathetic to the point of pathos. All that having been said, Jeff, Lisa, Doyle and Stella are interesting and entertaining people in their ways, and the mystery that comes to fixate them all adds extra layers of both interest and entertainment. Just the same, there are moments when it's easy to wish any of his three companions would give Jeff a whack across the chops.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 28, 2019 16:51:29 GMT
petrolino Your parent note has vanished … ![](https://s26.postimg.cc/jnez3haft/gulp.gif) wha happened ?
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