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Rear Window
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Rear Window is a 1954 American crime, mystery, thriller, and detective film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by John Michael Hayes and Cornell Woolrich, with Franz Waxman composing the music. The cast includes James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, and Thelma Ritter. Production was handled by Paramount Pictures and Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, with Robert Burks serving as director of photography. The film is set in New York City and was released in the United States.
The movie has a runtime of 112 minutes and was produced with a budget of 1,000,000. It earned a revenue of 37,042,336. The film received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Sound. On TMDb, it holds a vote average of 8.338 based on 7,145 votes, while IMDb lists a rating of 8.4 from 568,995 votes. The tagline for the film is "It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime."
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8.3A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Cast
- James Stewart as L.B. Jefferies
- Grace Kelly as Lisa Fremont
- Wendell Corey as Thomas Doyle
- Thelma Ritter as Stella
- Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald
- Judith Evelyn as Miss Lonelyhearts
Themes
- nurse
- isolation
- photographer
- suspicion of murder
- wheelchair
- girlfriend
- salesman
- neighbor
- whodunit
- biting
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Encyclopedic overview
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion.
Rear Window is shot almost entirely from within one room and from the point-of-view outside the window. The film was made with a budget of $1 million ($12 million in 2025), and grossed $27 million during its initial release ($324 million in 2025).
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