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Rope

PG Released Aug 24, 1948 1h 20m Crime Drama List
93% Tomatometer 55 Reviews 90% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings
Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan (Farley Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall) strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical exercise. Hiding the body in a chest upon which they then arrange a buffet dinner, the pair welcome their guests, including the victim's oblivious fiancée (Joan Chandler) and the college professor (James Stewart) whose lectures inadvertently inspired the killing. Read More Read Less
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As formally audacious as it is narratively brilliant, Rope connects a powerful ensemble in service of a darkly satisfying crime thriller from a master of the genre.

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Keith Uhlich (All (Parentheses)) Hitchcock examines his and his audience’s participatory roles in a centuries-old circuit of art production and reception. —Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin Jun 10, 2022 Full Review TIME Staff TIME Magazine In photographing the action, Director Hitchcock brought off a tour de force. Feb 9, 2019 Full Review David Parkinson Empire Magazine The trickery is still distracting, but there are hints in this 1948 film of the perversity that will yield Psycho, Strangers On A Train, Vertigo and Rear Window, so it's a must for Hitch collectors. Rated: 4/5 Feb 9, 2019 Full Review Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film It grips the audience from the very beginning, and it radiates the same morbid cleverness that would define Hitchcock’s later films. Rated: 4.5/5 Aug 4, 2024 Full Review Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight The film’s biggest strength is in its tantalizing plot. “Rope” is a very good movie that suffers only from its somewhat false sense of editing, but overall benefits from Hitchcock’s masterful direction. Rated: 3/4 Oct 4, 2023 Full Review Nadine Smith them. Though not quite a horror film, Rope is the kind of murder mystery that would pave the way for more explicit psychologically-motivated thrillers, as well as being a technical landmark in its use of Technicolor and extended takes. Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jelisije J An instant classic the grips your attention immediately and my only problem is that it was too short and I wanted more at the end. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/06/24 Full Review Christian K Without a doubt the dumbest murderers put on screen. Plenty of great James Stewart realization faces in here, possibly a generational performance of slowly realizing things. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/07/24 Full Review steve d Loved it. They just don't make movies like this anymore. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/05/24 Full Review Felix G Muy buena película. A pesar de que a veces personalmente sentí que parecía demasiado una obra de teatro (sobretodo en el final) cuando parecía más bien querer sentirse realista (que tampoco es como que eso le baje puntos necesariamente), es una película interesante, muy inteligente, muy bien lograda, con sus detalles ingeniosos y creativos, su tensión y actuaciones geniales y con una historia lograda a la perfección, además del gran detalle de que pareciera estar filmada en una sola toma, lo cuál le añade su personalidad. Así que, a pesar de no ser la historia más compleja o profunda del mundo, cumple a la perfección con lo que quiere contar y además lo hace con recursos muy bien logrados. Me gustaría darle un 9,5 pero bueno... sistema de estrellas... 9 será (equivalente a 4,5 estrellas). Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/12/24 Full Review D F amazing, gripping, suspenseful Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/07/24 Full Review Nol P Hitchcock was a master genius of making us think and wonder and then ponder and here is yet another movie example of such! It is a crime to find out that James Stewart only won one single Oscar all of his yrs in film as he is clearly one of the very finest actors ever, period! This fact on his snubs only proves more so that the Academy has no idea on who to give the golden statues to! I am slowly making my way to watching all of Alfred's great movies and this is a must see! This was my very first time seeing Rope today during my own movie marathon this given Sunday! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan (Farley Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall) strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical exercise. Hiding the body in a chest upon which they then arrange a buffet dinner, the pair welcome their guests, including the victim's oblivious fiancée (Joan Chandler) and the college professor (James Stewart) whose lectures inadvertently inspired the killing.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Producer
Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter
Patrick Hamilton, Hume Cronyn, Arthur Laurents, Ben Hecht
Distributor
Warner Bros., MCA/Universal Pictures [us], Universal Home Entertainment
Production Co
Warner Brothers, Universal Films
Rating
PG
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 24, 1948, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 19, 2016
Runtime
1h 20m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
35mm, Flat (1.37:1)
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