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Books Movies & Music Staff Recommend... Movies Rear Window
25 Sep 2009 |
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 Rear Window is one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. In this film J. B. Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) is confined to his apartment with a broken leg. The globetrotting photographer is getting a little stir crazy in his confinement and begins to pass the time by watching his neighbors across the courtyard. Some of the people he sees include a frustrated composer, a dancer who practices her routines wearing skimpy clothing, a lonely single woman, and a salesman with an invalid wife. You feel as frustrated as Jeffries because you can hear very little of the conversations taking place across the courtyard, yet you feel you are coming to know the residents through your spying. Late one night Jeffries observes the salesman making several trips in and out of the apartment, and the next day his wife is gone. What happened to the wife? Did the salesman murder her? Jeffries shares his concern with his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) and his nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter). Some snooping on Lisa’s part convinces her Jeffries might be right. The suspense mounts as the salesman realizes he is being spied upon and Jeffries is trapped in a wheelchair with no where to run. Turn down the lights and prepare to be ensnared in this classic thriller.
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