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Two college students murder a classmate in a bizarre experiment. This was Hitchcock's first film as an independent producer and was filmed almost entirely in 'real time' on a single set.Product Identifiers
ProducerAlfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lewis Bernstein
EAN5050582490572
eBay Product ID (ePID)59533615
Product Key Features
ActorJoan Chandler, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick, Farley Granger, Edith Evanson, John Dall, Cedric Hardwicke, James Stewart
Film/TV TitleRope
DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2007
FeaturesInteractive Menu
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerDavid Buttolph
ReviewsNew York Times - ...One can not understand the truly bold originality of [Hitchcock] without seeing it.
Additional InformationBased on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained the whodunit crime story, which he felt lacked emotional force, and ROPE shows the director's preference for letting the audience know more than the characters onscreen. The film opens as two young men (Farley Granger and John Dall) strangle a friend just to prove they're intellectually capable of committing the perfect crime. To add to the amusement, they hide the body in a trunk that will serve as the dinner table for a party honoring the deceased. The film hones in on an hour and a half of the party, with the constantly moving camera capturing the changing emotional atmosphere as the guests grow increasingly concerned about the fate of the missing boy. ROPE is a directorial tour de force, blending complex camera movement with intricate staging to present the entire story in near-real time in one location. Notably, the adaptation of the play by Patrick Hamilton was written by perennial Hitchcock actor Hume Cronyn.
Art DirectorPerry Ferguson
ScreenwriterBen Hecht, Arthur Laurents, Hume Cronyn
CinematographerJoseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleRope
EditorWilliam Ziegler