Rope [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	James Stewart John Dall Farley Granger Dick Hogan Edith Evanson
	Video by:	Universal Studios
	Sales Rank:	262105

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Actor(s):
James Stewart
John Dall
Farley Granger
Dick Hogan
Edith Evanson

Creators:
Alfred Hitchcock (Producer)
Joseph A. Valentine (Cinematographer)
William V. Skall (Cinematographer)
William H. Ziegler (Editor)
Sidney Bernstein (Producer)
Arthur Laurents (Writer)
Ben Hecht (Writer)
Hume Cronyn (Writer)
Patrick Hamilton (Writer)

Director(s):
Alfred Hitchcock

Recording label: Universal Studios
EAN: 9786300183582
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6300183580
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Universal product code (UPC): 096898011037
Audience rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

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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

Running time: 80 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)