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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300183582
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300183580
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 24362
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1948
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Amazon.com:
An experimental film masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in their large apartment, then throw a dinner party. Will the body be discovered? Director Alfred Hitchcock, fascinated by the possibilities of the long-take style, decided to shoot this story as though it were happening in one long, uninterrupted shot. Since the camera can only hold one 10-minute reel at a time, Hitchcock had to be creative when it came time to change reels, disguising the switches as the camera passed behind someone's back or moved behind a lamp. In later years Hitchcock wrote off the approach as misguided, and Rope may not be one of Hitchcock's top movies, but it's still a nail-biter. They don't call him the Master of Suspense for nothing. James Stewart, as a suspicious professor, marks his first starring role for Hitchcock, a collaboration that would lead to the masterpieces Rear Window and Vertigo. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Frayed, but Tight
Hitchcock's first color film was this stage adaptation pieced together from only about a dozen takes. It's similar to Dial M, but with a psychological slant that, along with the factual basis for the story, make it a hard picture to really enjoy. The cast is too credible to allow us much amusement from the sophisticated double entrendres of the central crime. Hitchcock's later mastery of black comedy may have been able to make something more palatable of the script. As it is, Dall and Granger ... Read More
Rating:  - Flawed, but interesting.
Rope presents the story of two charmed -- but hardly charming -- prep school "chums" who, in addition to being, for all appearances, lovers, decide to kill someone just because they can. You see, these two perfectly preened dandies fancy themselves the elite and above the law and other nuisances meant for the dullards and nincompoops that comprise the vast majority of humanity. It turns out they've read a little too much Nietzsche at the feet of their prep school idol, Rupert. Yes, Rupert. What's clever ... Read More
Rating:  - An Ode to "Rope" -- One of Hitchcock's Underrated Best
Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (1948) is a claustrophobic masterpiece - a spiraling descent into the dark recesses of human nature. Hitchcock explores the rough edges of ego and impulse and how they can lead to horrible consequences.
It may be Hitchcock's greatest movie. Certainly it is his most tightly constricted piece - filled with long takes in near real-time. It's an amazing achievement of controlled tension.
The only exterior shot in the film comes during the opening credits. The ... Read More
Rating: - Great print of a great movie
This is one of Hitchock's best films - they are all great, but this one and "Rear Window" are my favourites. The technical transfer of this film to DVD is solid; the storyline is incredible, given the time in which this film was produced.
There's quite a bit more "story" to the story, in the relationship between the two main characters - a relationship that possibly doomed this film to very specific audiences in 1948 when it was released. Don't miss this one - if it's not in your Hitchcock collection, ... Read More
Rating: - A different kind of Hitchcock
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 ... Read More
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300183582
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300183580
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 24362
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1948