Rope
1948 · TMDB 7.9
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
Why it matters
Hitchcock's experiment in apparent continuity, staged in a single apartment, where the camera's restlessness becomes a nervous tic of guilt. The cuts are hidden in backs and darkness, but the tension is all in what cannot be shown.
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Released
- 1948-02-01
- Studio
- Transatlantic Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.9
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