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starring: Joan Chandler, Constance Collier, John Dall, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300183582
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300183580
Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Sales Rank: 18268
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1948
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
An experimental film masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in their large apartment, then throw a dinner party. Will the body be discovered? Director Alfred Hitchcock, fascinated by the possibilities of the long-take style, decided to shoot this story as though it were happening in one long, uninterrupted shot. Since the camera can only hold one 10-minute reel at a time, Hitchcock had to be creative when it came time to change reels, disguising the switches as the camera passed behind someone's back or moved behind a lamp. In later years Hitchcock wrote off the approach as misguided, and Rope may not be one of Hitchcock's top movies, but it's still a nail-biter. They don't call him the Master of Suspense for nothing. James Stewart, as a suspicious professor, marks his first starring role for Hitchcock, a collaboration that would lead to the masterpieces Rear Window and Vertigo. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great print of a great movie
This is one of Hitchock's best films - they are all great, but this one and "Rear Window" are my favourites. The technical transfer of this film to DVD is solid; the storyline is incredible, given the time in which this film was produced.
There's quite a bit more "story" to the story, in the relationship between the two main characters - a relationship that possibly doomed this film to very specific audiences in 1948 when it was released. Don't miss this one - if it's not in your Hitchcock ... Read More
Rating: - A different kind of Hitchcock
3.5 stars. A film inspired by the true crime case of Leopold and Loeb, Hitchcock tried to do a few different things with this film and I'm not too sure it worked. The decision to shoot in eight ten minute long sequences might have sounded appealing, but to me it came off a bit too gimmicky. The film is also a little slow in getting started and doesn't really pick up until Jimmie Stewart comes onto the scene. Jimmie, as always, is perfect and it is he who steals the show. Of course, I don't know how either ... Read More
Rating: - The More You Watch, the Tighter the Suspense Grows
Brandon (John Dall) and Phillip (Farley Granger) feel they are superior to their friends in every way. As such, they think they can plan the perfect murder and get away with it. Their victim is David Kentley (Dick Hogan). And to prove just how superior they are, they invite his family and friends over for a dinner party with his still cooling body in a trunk in the room.
Among the guests is their old school advisor Rupert (James Stewart), the only person Brandon thinks can figure out what they've ... Read More
Rating: - An overlooked masterpiece
I was a kid when I first saw ROPE, some 15 years ago. I vividly remembered that scene of the maid cleaning up after the party - the camera nailed down to one spot; just the one view of the maid clearing-off the table/chest, unaware of its ghastly contents. You watch her up close as she picks up plates from atop the chest and then she walks into the distance to the kitchen and then she comes back to us to take more things off the chest and then goes away again, back and forth, again and again, cleaning, working her ... Read More
Rating: - An Expiremental Achievement in Directing and Acting
Rope is in a different Hitchcock clas altogether. Coming off the success of two features with Ingrid Bergman (Spellbound - Criterion Collection, Notorious - Criterion Collection) Hitchcock decided to try an expirement in his next film.
It plays like a well adapted play on screen. Broken into 8 sections by seamingly unnoticed takes, Rope is an achievement in every sense of the word. Noy only in directorial prowess but in story effectiveness and acting. Constant acting for nearly 10 minutes, although ... Read More
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