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Rear Window is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in USA on 30 september 1983 with James Stewart

Rear Window (1954)

Rear Window
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Released in USA 30 september 1983
Length 1h49
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime,    Romance
Rating84% 4.249074.249074.249074.249074.24907

Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest movies ever made. The film received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked #42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and #48 on the 10th-anniversary edition. In 1997, Rear Window was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Synopsis

After breaking his leg photographing a racetrack accident, professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (James Stewart) is confined to his Greenwich Village apartment, using a wheelchair while he recuperates. His rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. During a summer heat wave, he passes the time by watching his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool. The tenants he can see include a dancer he nicknames "Miss Torso", a lonely woman he nicknames "Miss Lonelyhearts", a composer-pianist, several married couples, a middle-aged sculptor, and Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), a traveling jewelry salesman with a bedridden wife.

Actors

James Stewart

(L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies)Grace Kelly

(Lisa Fremont)Wendell Corey

(Det. Lt. Thomas J. Doyle)Thelma Ritter

(Stella)Raymond Burr

(Lars Thorwald)
And :
Judith Evelyn
Ross Bagdasarian
Sara Berner
Georgine Darcy
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