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7.9Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
Released: 1948-02-0181 minDir: Alfred HitchcockThriller, Crime, DramaBudget: $1.5MBox office: $2.2M
Cast
- James Stewart as Rupert Cadell
- John Dall as Brandon Shaw
- Farley Granger as Phillip Morgan
- Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. Henry Kentley
- Constance Collier as Mrs. Anita Atwater
- Douglas Dick as Kenneth Lawrence
Themes
- philosophy
- banquet
- rope
- strangle
- based on play or musical
- murder
- dinner party
- academia
- suspicious
- suspenseful
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
164,845 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
73/100
- Year
- 1948
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay by
- Arthur Laurents
- Story by
- Hume Cronyn
- Based on
- Rope , by Patrick Hamilton
- Produced by
- Alfred Hitchcock Uncredited: Sidney Bernstein
- Starring
- James Stewart John Dall Farley Granger Cedric Hardwicke Constance Collier Joan Chandler
- Cinematography
- Joseph A. Valentine , William V. Skall
- Edited by
- William H. Ziegler
- Music by
- David Buttolph Francis Poulenc
- Production company
- Transatlantic Pictures
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- August 26, 1948 ( 1948-08-26 ) (New York City) September 25, 1948 ( 1948-09-25 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 81 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.5 –2 million
- Box office
- $2.2 –2.7 million
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Encyclopedic overview
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Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same title by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.
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