'Rear Window' (1954)

Rear Window

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Rear Window [1954]



James Stewart Collection - Harvey/Mr Smith Goes To Washington/Rear Window/It's A Wonderful Life

 Photographer L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart), immobilized with a a badly broken leg, and confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment, spends his convalescence spying on his motley assortment of neighbors -- a frustrated yet fun-loving composer banging on his piano, a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog, a dancer who seems to enjoy practicing her routines while scantily clad (Georgine Darcy), a pair of reclusive newlyweds, a lonely woman who seems to live in a fantasy world (Judith Evelyn), and the stark drama of the travelling salesman (Raymond Burr) and his invalid wife. Every day Jeffries is visited by Stella (Thelma Ritter), a home care nurse. Much of the film concerns Jeffries' unwillingness to settle down and marry his girlfriend Lisa Fremont. (And since Lisa is played delightfully and in the finest haute couture by the impossibly beautiful Grace Kelly, one questions his sanity.)

  Late one night after Lisa had left, Jeffries noticed something going on in the salesman's apartment. He saw things he thought were strange and became convinced that a gruesome murder has been committed. No one else believed him at first, but after he explained his reasoning more and they saw more strange things, Lisa and Stella came to believe him. The two women even decided to try to find evidence to prove that Jeffries was right. But doing so could put all of their lives in danger.

  Rear Window is based on the short story 'It Had to be Murder' by Cornell Woolrich.

  James Stewart, was highly enthused about working with Grace Kelly. He later admitted to taking her flowers from his garden on several occasions. “Everything about Grace is appealing. I’m married but I’m not dead!”

  Rear Window earned Alfred Hitchcock an Oscar nomination for Best Director, Robert Burks - for Best Color Cinematography, John Michael Hayes - for Best Screenplay, Loren L. Ryder - for Best Sound. Rear Window inspired such later films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Brian De Palma's Sisters (1973). It was remade in 1998 as a TV movie with Christopher Reeve in the James Stewart role.

  In 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its Ten top Ten — the best ten films in ten classic American film genres — after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Rear Window was acknowledged as the third best film in the mystery genre. Grace Kelly was named Best Actress by the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle for the leading role.



Lisa and Jeffries

Stella and Lisa Fremont

Lisa and Jeffries

Lisa and Jeffries.

Lisa at the suspect's door.

Stella, Jeffries and Lisa. What is he going to do?

Stella, Jeffries and Lisa. We will call him.

Stella and Lisa.

Lisa investigates.

Jeffries

Lisa




The books on 'Rear Window':

192 pages. Dimensions: 9.00x6.48x.54 in.   196 pages. Dimensions: 7.99x5.28x.58 in.

Hardcover. 179 pages. Dimensions: 9.26x6.30x.78 in.   Hitchcock insisted that Madeleine Carroll submit herself to painful physical demands during the making of The 39 Steps. He harbored a poignantly unrequited love for Ingrid Bergman. He meticulously and deliberately constructed Grace Kelly's image.

Paperback. 367 pages.   The authors of this anthology show how famous films such as Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window, along with more obscure ones such as Rope, The Wrong Man, and Family Plot, register the ideologies and insurgencies, the normative assumptions and the cultural alternatives, that shaped these tumultuous decades.

This remarkable new biography — the first in a quarter-century — restores Hitchcock the man in all his three-dimensional glory. Here is the comprehensive film craftsman and the private man: dedicated romantic, constant trickster, impotent voyeur, devoted husband, a man who sacrificed his life, again and again, for his work.   The first comprehensively illustrated look at the career of Alfred Hitchcock.

Hitchcock is placed on the analyst's couch in this volume of case studies, as its contributors bring to bear their enthusiasm and theory on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho.   In his films, Alfred Hitchcock found the perfect expression for his fantasies, and he shared those fantasies with the world in such classics as The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds. In It's Only a Movie, Charlotte Chandler draws from her extensive conversations with Hitchcock, frequently revealing unknown facts and unexpected insights into the man, the director, and his films.

'Writing with Hitchcock' not only provides new insight into four films from a master but also sheds light on the process through which classic motion pictures are created.   Paperback. 125 pages.

From Hitchcock's first film, Blackmail — to his blockbuster Hollywood successes, Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, and Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock chronicles the Master of Suspense's close working relationship with his wife, Alma, who was an integral part of his filmmaking process, and the struggle to gain full artistic control over his work.   Hitchcock's engaging wit and intelligence are on display here, as are his sophistication, serious contemplation, and playful manipulation of the interviewer.

Paula Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films — Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho — as well as some of the more uneven ones — Rope, The Wrong Man, Topaz — and makes connections between his evolution as a filmmaker and trends in the larger society.   The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Robert A. Harris

A comprehensive guide to all Hitchcock's works including TV series and early silent films, as well as Hollywood classics.   Paul Gordon offers an examination of several of Alfred Hitchcock's major films from two perspectives: Freudian psychoanalysis and their latent psychosexual content.

Devoting 11 individual chapters to such films to Rebecca, Suspicion, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Psycho, Rear Window, and The Birds, Robert Yanal explains how Hitchcock addresses philosophical questions of deception, mind, and knowledge.   This work examines themes, techniques, and the filmmaking process in 15 of Hitchcock's best known films: The 39 Steps, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, Notorious, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Frenzy and Family Plot.

Hardcover. 196 pages.   The third volume in a trilogy exploring the life and work of the legendary director examines Hitchcock's life in terms of his relationships with the actresses in his films, including Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, and Tippi Hedren, in a study of his films, rise to fame and power, artistic legacy, unconventional marriage, and obsessions.

  

  

Stella, Lisa and Jeffries. Where is his wife?

Stella, Lisa and Jeffries.

Lisa, Stella, Jeffries.

Lisa to put the note.

Lisa, Stella and Jeffries.














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