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List Price: $14.98Price: $6.50 You Save: $8.48 (57%)
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
Fabric Type: 9786300183513
Graphics Memory Size: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 6300183513
Maximum Color Depth: Paramount Pictures
Metal Type: Paramount Pictures
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Paramount Pictures
Total Parallel Ports: March 01, 1992
Total S Video Out Ports: 112 minutes
Paramount Pictures
1954
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder.
Photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is, in fact, a voyeur by trade, a professional photographer sidelined by an accident while on assignment. His immersion in the human drama (and comedy) visible from his window is a by-product of boredom, underlined by the disapproval of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and a wisecracking visiting nurse (Thelma Ritter). Yet when the invalid wife of Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) disappears, Jeff enlists the two women to help him to determine whether she's really left town, as Thorwald insists, or been murdered.
Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto convincingly argues that the crime at the center of this mystery is the MacGuffin--a mere pretext--in a film that's more interested in the implications of Jeff's sentinel perspective. We actually learn more about the lives of the other neighbors (given generic names by Jeff, even as he's drawn into their lives) he, and we, watch undetected than we do the putative murderer and his victim. Jeff's evident fear of intimacy and commitment with the elegant, adoring Lisa provides the other vital thread to the script, one woven not only into the couple's own relationship, but reflected and even commented upon through the various neighbors' lives.
At minimum, Hitchcock's skill at making us accomplices to Jeff's spying, coupled with an ingenious escalation of suspense as the teasingly vague evidence coalesces into ominous proof, deliver a superb thriller spiked with droll humor, right up to its nail-biting, nightmarish climax. At deeper levels, however, Rear Window plumbs issues of moral responsibility and emotional honesty, while offering further proof (were any needed) of the director's brilliance as a visual storyteller. --Sam Sutherland
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Actually, "Rear Window" is a great film- suspense, Jimmy Stewart, and Raymond Burr as the brow beaten heavy you love to hate. The VHS version is fine with me. You can read the summary on Wikipedia. What creeped me out was the love interest between the aged old Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. (I did not need to see Jimmy with his shirt off either.) The makeout scenes could have been deleted, for all I care, or an older attractive actress could have been more demure. Oh, well... I mean...it was ... Read More
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This DVD is the remastered version of the movie, looks terrific. The DVD includes a fact-filled documentary about the making of the movie. Thoroughly enjoyed it, glad to have in my DVD collection.
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"Rear Window," of course, is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most glittering masterpieces, and the great thing about this DVD is that it goes a long way in showing us why. First, it presents the film in a beautiful new restoration, with glowing colors and crisp picture definition. Second, it provides a fascinating feature in the Extras section, describing how Hitchcock designed the set--one of the most ingenious production designs in cinematic history. It contains interviews with surviving members of the ... Read More
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It was in excellent condition.Also I had clicked the wrong area and Amazon were going to send 2but all was corrected quickly to my satisfaction.I reccommended it
R.W.Mercer
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It may be open to question whether 'Rear Window' (1954) is a better movie than 'On The Waterfront' (winner of 1954 Best Picture Oscar), but what cannot be denied is the fact that 'Rear Window' is an Oscar grade material. It is superb story unfolding details of a murder of a wife by her husband in parallel with unfolding of a romantic and passionate relationship of another budding couple. Yes, James Stewart looks too old to be a bachelor photographer but that could not rob him and the screen of his charming ... Read More
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