Rope (film)
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock Sidney Bernstein (uncredited) |
| Screenplay by | Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents |
| Based on |
Rope by Patrick Hamilton |
| Starring |
James Stewart John Dall Farley Granger Joan Chandler Sir Cedric Hardwicke Constance Collier Douglas Dick Edith Evanson |
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| Cinematography |
Joseph A. Valentine William V. Skall |
| Edited by | William H. Ziegler |
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| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures (US) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Europe) |
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Running time
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million or $2 million |
| Box office | $2.2 million (rentals) |
Rope is a 1948 American film noir psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton, and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents.
The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes. It is the second of Hitchcock's "limited setting" films, the first being Lifeboat. The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Granger), strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
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