Rope

Name: Rope
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: September 25, 1948
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Dick Hogan, Douglas Dick

1948

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 25, 1948 | TV-G

Starring: Alfred Hitchcock, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Dick Hogan, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, Farley Granger, James Stewart, Joan Chandler, John Dall

Summary: Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: TV-G

Runtime: 80 min

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Vincent Canby

Rope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary. Read full review

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Michael Wilmington

One of the cinema's supreme, most outrageously eccentric and audacious technical experiments: the legendary single shot movie. Read full review

Fernando F. Croce

A crime for most, a privilege for some is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Hitchcock liked to pretend that the film was an empty technical exercise, but it introduces the principal themes and motifs of the major period that would begin with Rear Window. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Hitchcock could have chosen a more entertaining subject with which to use the arresting camera and staging technique displayed in Rope. Theme is of a thrill murder, done for no reason but to satisfy a sadistical urge and intellectual vanity. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Stewart seems uncomfortable playing an intellectual; his dull performance never displays the disturbance or authority that it needs. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

At all events, the picture takes on a dull tone as it goes and finally ends in a fizzle which is forecast almost from the start. Read full review

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Mahmus

Sep 25, 2020

There's a reason why Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense. Rope is a masterclass in tension, which is heightened by it's use of almost only long shots.

I love how Jimmy Stewart's character is forced to actually think about how dangerous his philosophies really are once one ofThere's a reason why Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense. Rope is a masterclass in tension, which is heightened by it's use of almost only long shots.

I love how Jimmy Stewart's character is forced to actually think about how dangerous his philosophies really are once one of his students actually puts them into action. It's a great moment.

Also, the gay subtext between the two killers is impossible to ignore. They might as well just say it in the film, but it was the 1940's so, no chance.… Expand