During a heat wave, normally itinerant news photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) finds himself confined by a broken leg to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. Each day, and often into the night, he has little to do but gaze out his rear window at the activities of his neighbours in the surrounding apartments. Jeff’s main visitors are his fiancée Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), a high-fashion model, and Stella (Thelma Ritter), a wiry insurance company nurse. When Jeff says he suspects that his neighbour directly opposite, costume jewellery salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), has murdered his wife, no one pays much attention at first. Lisa is mainly concerned to overcome Jeff’s reluctance to get married. But Jeff intensifies his window-gazing, using binoculars and even a telephoto lens. After Lisa volunteers to cross the courtyard and obtain evidence against Thorwald, trouble erupts. Thorwald catches her in his apartment. Jeff frantically calls the police, who come and arrest Lisa. Meanwhile, having learnt that Jeff has been spying on him, Thorwald decides to pay a visit. Only last-minute intervention by Jeff’s detective friend Tom Doyle (Wendell Corey) saves him from the enraged killer.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Rear Window (1954)
During a heat wave, normally itinerant news photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) finds himself confined by a broken leg to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. Each day, and often into the night, he has little to do but gaze out his rear window at the activities of his neighbours in the surrounding apartments. Jeff’s main visitors are his fiancée Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), a high-fashion model, and Stella (Thelma Ritter), a wiry insurance company nurse. When Jeff says he suspects that his neighbour directly opposite, costume jewellery salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), has murdered his wife, no one pays much attention at first. Lisa is mainly concerned to overcome Jeff’s reluctance to get married. But Jeff intensifies his window-gazing, using binoculars and even a telephoto lens. After Lisa volunteers to cross the courtyard and obtain evidence against Thorwald, trouble erupts. Thorwald catches her in his apartment. Jeff frantically calls the police, who come and arrest Lisa. Meanwhile, having learnt that Jeff has been spying on him, Thorwald decides to pay a visit. Only last-minute intervention by Jeff’s detective friend Tom Doyle (Wendell Corey) saves him from the enraged killer.
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