Rear Window (1954)
Thursday, October 20th, 2005People do a lot of things in private they couldn’t possibly explain in public.
Three of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous films, Rope, Lifeboat and Rear Window, work around a very restricted geography, two New York apartments and a lifeboat. Of the three, Rear Window is the most successful as a film. It takes place almost entirely with the Greenwich apartment of globetrotting photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries (James Stewart), marooned for the last six weeks with a broken leg suffered on his last assignment. His only human contact has been his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and Stella (Thelma Ritter), the nurse from the insurance company. Stella hounds him to finally marry Lisa, but Jeff is reluctant. Apparently, he suffered a head injury, too. Reluctant to marry Grace Kelly? Inconceivable.
