Rope (1948)

Rope (1948)

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by: Arthur Laurents

Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Running Time: 80 Minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Viewed: Owned DVD

The guest who's dead on time.

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Comments: The first time I watched Rope was in a Sociology class in college. While the film is an excellent study on human behavior, we mainly just watched movies because the professor was awful and never really taught anything (we also watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Mindhunters). But I've enjoyed Rope from the first time I watched it in the classroom knowing nothing about it. It's not one of Hitchcock's best, but it's shot rather impressively (in 10 minute or so cuts, and it's edited together to make it seem like one long continuous take). Plus, I'm a Jimmy Stewart fan and seeing him in his first Hitchcock film is pretty awesome. Recommended.