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Movie Reviews of Rope
Movie Review: Good mid-period Hitchcock
Summary: 4 Stars
Rope is an excellent experimental film from the master of suspense. Hitchcock decided for this film to try and make it look like one continuous take. This is quite cleverly done, but once you've seen it you will always spot where the cuts are. For a film made in 1949 the colour print is very good.
Loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case from 20 or so years earlier, it centres around one room where 2 students murder a fellow student. Nothing given away here this is the opening scene. James Stewart plays the professor who begins to suspect there might be something going on. As always Hitchcock produces a couple of classic scenes, perhaps the best of which is where it looks as the housemaid might might find the body. This is brilliantly filmed and a typical piece of Hitchcock magic.
The lack of justification for the murder also raises moral issues that James Stewart's character ultimately firmly rebuts. So as always there is more going on in a Hitchcock film than first meets the eye. This is well worth buying.
Movie Review: Of considerable interest...
Summary: 4 Stars
Naturally, Alfred Hitchcock, could not resist the temptations of confined time and space in which to spin his spells... One of his more interesting attempts was in his first color film, "Rope," made in 1948.
The story was about two young socialites, John Dall and Farley Granger, who strangled a college friend just for kicks and hid his body in a chest in the room to which his parents were coming to a cocktail party... Among the guests was James Stewart, who sifted out the truth before the evening was over...
One could imagine what Hitchcock would do with such a situation - but in fact he did a great deal more... For a start, he played out the drama in the actual time of the story: 80 minutes on a summer evening in that New York skyscraper... He dispensed with the usual cutting techniques and, for the first time in history, shot in ten-minute takes, with not a single interruption for the different camera set-ups...
Movie Review: Nice Classic by Hichcock and Stewart
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good classic made in the late 1940's and is in color, which is hard to find. Almost 80% of it was shot is a small set dipicts a mid sized apartment, something that I hardly see. It also gives viewers a good picture of the young Jimmy Stewart, who is a professor that is first suspects and figure out the strangling of one of his students by the two students that live in the apartment.
Thsi movie also puts on a lot of attention to the philospher Fredrich Nietzsche, who idea was that it is best for only the most powerfull people should live. That is what the 2 gays have in their mind for this movie.
The only hard part to this movie is triing to find the scene where Alfred Hitchcock is pictured in.
Movie Review: A different kind of Hitchcock
Summary: 4 Stars
3.5 stars. A film inspired by the true crime case of Leopold and Loeb, Hitchcock tried to do a few different things with this film and I'm not too sure it worked. The decision to shoot in eight ten minute long sequences might have sounded appealing, but to me it came off a bit too gimmicky. The film is also a little slow in getting started and doesn't really pick up until Jimmie Stewart comes onto the scene. Jimmie, as always, is perfect and it is he who steals the show. Of course, I don't know how either of the boys thought this was the perfect crime, but then again, what do I know. Still the third act turns out to be quite suspenseful and is what made this film enjoyable. Recommended.Movie Review: Psychological Suspense Story
Summary: 3 Stars
Rope, 1948 film
The film opens on a bright sunny city street in the late afternoon. Inside an apartment two young men are strangling another young man. A thrill killing by sadists behind drawn curtains? Have they committed the perfect murder? Brandon is in charge (his speeches tell this came from a stage play). Philip shows regret, Brandon is excited over the murder. Next there is a party where the parents of the murdered man and others will attend. Brandon's megalomania starts to show; he is perfect. The guests begin to show up. The conversations tell us more about the people and their empty lives.
Rupert Caddell, their former housemaster at school, shows up. People talk to tell about themselves. Philip has an odd reason for avoiding chickens. Housemaster Rupert has a weird personality; he talks about murdering people on a whim. Brandon prattles on about Nietzsche (an insane philosopher actually admired in some places). Janet is embarrassed by Brandon's actions; she had dropped him as a boyfriend. Rupert's talk with Philip causes him distress. There is suspense when the maid attempts to open that large storage chest. Rupert finds a hat that doesn't fit. (A clue to the man who wore it.) Then Rupert returns to hold a conversation with Brandon. Philip's nerves break and a crisis occurs. [You can figure out how this story will end.]
This story was based on a famous crime. It criticizes the insane philosophy taught in some universities; whose purpose is to justify the oppression of ordinary people by their ruling class. Would such a play be successful today? William Jennings Bryan warned against Darwinian philosophy and its logical outcome. Why did James Stewart play in so many Hitchcock films?
[Does that room window remind you of "Rear Window"?]