Word: hitchcock
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...Cleaver housewife, fully equipped with automatic dishwasher, garbage disposal and cabinets full of rum. Something eerie lurks behind the placidity of the 1950s setting and L.B. Jeffries is out to find it, binoculars in hand and his snooping mind alert. It is the year the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, made his voyeuristic thriller, "Rear Window...
...Hitchcock's film, written by John Michael Hayes and adapted from the short story by Cornell Woolrich, intertwines a murder mystery and the voyeuristic antic of an incapacitated photographer, with a feud of the sexes. Lisa Carol Freemont, the most eligible Park avenue princess, is in love with said photographer and is trying to convince him to take the next step in any wholesome '50's relationship, marriage. Grace Kelly and James Stewart are inimitable in the respective roles. Kelly, with the finesse, polish and beauty which is her trademark, jousts incredibly well with the curmudgeonly, witty Stewart, whose character...
This is the movie where I, and I believe everyone I know, fell in love with Grace Kelly. Hitchcock knows the lines of her face uncannily well and he shoots her with the best lighting and in the most flattering of poses. Not that she has any bad angles...
...time. About the time a viewer might be tempted to switch to a shopping channel, the anchors would go to a replay of the ceremonious delivery of the mysterious brown envelope, which contains either a knife or a red herring. It's as riveting as the MacGuffin in a Hitchcock thriller...
...emoting department but has brightness and vulnerability to burn. So they made her character a cub reporter who hasn't figured out how attractive, resourceful or brave she is -- a heroine in the process of becoming. It's a nicely contoured outfit for Roberts to wear to the Hitchcock ball. And Nick Nolte, displaying his dimpled machismo, is a knowing escort...