It begins with a shriek...it ends with a shot! From beginning to end, nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE!
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
ThrillerCrimeDramaphilosophybanquetropestranglebased on play or musicalmurderdinner partyacademiasuspicioussuspensefulintensesuperiority
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Character
Intimate, grave, spare and contemplative.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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Cast
- James StewartRupert Cadell
- John DallBrandon Shaw
- Farley GrangerPhillip Morgan
- Cedric HardwickeMr. Henry Kentley
- Constance CollierMrs. Anita Atwater
- Douglas DickKenneth Lawrence
- Edith EvansonMrs. Wilson
- Dick HoganDavid Kentley
- Joan ChandlerJanet Walker
- Alfred HitchcockMan Walking in Street (uncredited)
Crew
- Alfred HitchcockDirector
- Arthur LaurentsScreenplay
- Joseph A. ValentineDirector of Photography
- William V. SkallDirector of Photography
- William H. ZieglerEditor
- Alfred HitchcockProducer
- Sidney BernsteinProducer
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Pairings
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Drive 201163% alikeBoth grave, contemplative; this one is more epic.
Vertigo 195862% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemplative.
Starve Acre 202462% alikeBoth intimate, grave, earnest.
Blue Velvet 198660% alikeBoth grave, earnest, bleak; this one is more epic.
High Noon 195260% alikeBoth grave, earnest.
Home 201266% alikeGame · Both intimate, grave, earnest.
The Haunting of Bly Manor 202061% alikeSeries · Both intimate, grave, contemplative.
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