Rear Window Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
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Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James_Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma_Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace_Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine_Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith_Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond_Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred_Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael_Powell's Peeping_Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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