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Rear Window

Screening on Film
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
With James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter.
US, 1954, 35mm, color, 112 min.

An intriguing study of obsession, Rear Window tells the story of L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (Stewart), a temporarily wheelchair-bound photographer who uses his convalescent time to spy on the tenants of other apartments on his block through his own "rear window." Amid a growing suspicion that one of his neighbors has committed murder, he enlists his girlfriend (Kelly) and maid (Ritter) to gather evidence, with near-tragic results. Hitchcock’s use of camera angles, shot predominantly from Jefferies’s apartment window, draws viewers into the tantalizing world of voyeurism.

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