Rope (1948 Film)

Rope is a 1948 classic Alfred Hitchcock suspense film about two men who commit a murder to show their preponderance. The film is adapted from the play Rope's End which was inspired by true events.

Hitchcock used a long-take technique to a great extent in this film, continuously panning the camera, and masking the few cuts he did make.http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/movies/hitchcock-s-rope-a-stunt-to-behold.html

Rope was Alfred Hitchcock’s first color film and is noteworthy for the fact the two lead characters are gay.http://apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=2938&Specific=856

Two men kill a friend and place his dead body in an antique chest. To prove their superiority, they proceed to throw a dinner party where the victim's father, aunt and fiance are all guests and are served food from the chest which contains the murdered man's body.

Vincent Canby of the New York Times said, "Rope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary."http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/060384hitch-rope-reflection.html

"Rope is a complex and dazzlingly unique picture."—Christopher Nul of the AMChttp://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/60e74e041ca9cd6b8625626f0062219f/8eab3b202889c843882569fe001f1cbe?OpenDocument

"More experimental – and only partially successfully so – than revolutionary, Rope is an interesting but not entirely satisfying film."—Brian Webster of Apollo Movie Guidehttp://apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=2938&Specific=856

• James Stewart as publisher Rupert Cadell

• John Dall as Brandon Shaw

• Farley Granger as Phillip Morgan

• Cedric Hardwicke victim’s father Mr. Kentley

• Edith Evanson as Mrs. Wilson the maid