DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Alfred Hitchcock
PRODUCTION CO: Alfred J Hitchcock Productions/Patron Inc
SCREENPLAY: John Michael Hayes, based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Burks
EDITOR: George Tomasini
MUSIC: Franz Waxman
WITH: James Stewart (LB Jeffries), Grace Kelly (Lisa Freemont), Wendell Corey (Lt Tom Doyle), Thelma Ritter (Stella), Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald)

REVIEW

“Rear Window is Hitchcock’s brilliant meditation on cinema and voyeurism, on how we can create scenarios to frighten ourselves, and maybe get killed in the process. With Grace Kelly’s elegant enthusiasm playing cat and mouse (or spider and fly) with James Stewart’s morbidity, Thelma Ritter and Wendell Corey bustling between the lovers to keep them PG, and the lugubrious Raymond Burr as a suspected wife-butcher, this is at once Hitchcock’s most enchanting and ominous film."

— Judy Bloch, BAMPFA

“Hitchcock made a career out of indulging our voyeuristic tendencies, and he never excited them more skilfully, or with more gleeful self-awareness, than in Rear Window” – Guardian

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