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Rope (1948) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 6, 2001
• R2: 21 Apr 2003
Budget $1,500,000
Running Time
1 hour, 20 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Transatlantic Pictures, Warner Bros.
Studio Transatlantic Pictures, Warner Brothers
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Rope (1948)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
• Cocktail für eine Leiche (1963)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Murder, Gay/Lesbian, Psychodrama, True Story, Experimental, Love, School / Campus
Tagline: The guest who's dead on time
Plot: Based on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained the whodunit crime story, which he felt lacked emotional force, and ROPE shows the director's preference for letting the audience know more than the characters onscreen. The film opens as two young men (Farley Granger and John Dall) strangle a friend just to prove they're intellectually capable of committing the perfect crime. To add to the amusement, they hide the body in a trunk that will serve as the dinner table for a party honoring the deceased. The film hones in on an hour and a half of the party, with the constantly moving camera capturing the changing emotional atmosphere as the guests grow increasingly concerned about the fate of the missing boy. ROPE is a directorial tour de force, blending complex camera movement with intricate staging to present the entire story in near-real time in one location. Notably, the adaptation of the play by Patrick Hamilton was written by perennial Hitchcock actor Hume Cronyn.
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| Hume Cronyn
The Dollmaker, The Pelican Brief, Shadow of a Doubt |
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 | John Dall
Spartacus, Deadly Is the Female, The Corn Is Green | Farley Granger
Strangers on a Train, The Celluloid Closet, My Name Is Trinity | | | Douglas Dick
The Red Badge of Courage, Flaming Star, Home of the Brave | |
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David Buttolph
House of Wax, The Horse Soldiers, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms |
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