Rear Window is also considered one of the best thriller
films ever made, it was made in 1954 by Alfred Hitchcock (Also one of the best thriller
directors of all time) and is a Mystery thriller. The film is about a
professional photographer L.B. Jeffries who beaks his leg after trying to take
pictures of an auto race. He is then confined to his apartment where he spends
time watching the neighbours through his window. He thinks he has witnessed the
neighbour kill his wife and enlists his girlfriend (Grace Kelly) and a visiting
nurse to investigate.
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| Rear Window - 1954 - Alfred Hitchcock |
The movie is produced by Paramount Pictures and they gave
Hitchcock a budget of $1,000,000 to make the 112 minute movie. It resulted in a
gross profit of just under $1,560,000. The movie was awarded a number of awards
and even nominated for four Oscars. The reason the movie is so popular is that
Hitchcock effectively made us sympathise so well with the wheelchair bound man
who was clearly innocent and obviously spying at the wrong time. We also feel a
lot of tension and suspense wanting to know more since we do not actually see the
murder clearly so he could be innocent. Lastly Hitchcock creates a great sense
of fear since this could happen to pretty much anybody and we want to see the
consequences of this.
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| One of the rear windows that the movie showed. |
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