Rope
Summary:
Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play +Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with Nietzschean philosophy by their kindly professor James Stewar... Full Summary >>
Cast:
James Stewart - (Rupert Cadell)
John Dall - (Brandon Shaw)
Farley Granger - (Phillip Morgan)
Cedric Hardwicke - (Mr. Kentley)
Constance Collier - (Mrs. Atwater)
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Review:
Though it lacks the excitement of his best works, Rope remains a solid suspense effort that is recognized as one of Alfred Hitchcock's most technically challenging films. Since the entire story -- two young men commit murder for sport, hide the body in a chest, then celebrate the effort by having a party whose guests include the victim's fath... Continue >>
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