Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window / a Paramount release ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 61123521 | Universal61123553 | UniversalLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Rear window
- Container of (work): Rear window (Motion picture : 1954)
- Container of (expression): Rear window (Motion picture : 1954). French.
- Music score by Franz Waxman ; director of photography, Robert Burks ; edited by George Tomasini.
- National Film Preservation Board, 1997: selection to the National Film Registry.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; NTSC, region 1, dual layer, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.
English or dubbed French dialogue; with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.
Music score by Franz Waxman ; director of photography, Robert Burks ; edited by George Tomasini.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich.
"Restored for Universal Pictures by Robert A. Harris and James Katz"--Container.
Widescreen 1.66:1.
MPAA rating: PG.
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Special features: "Rear Window ethics : an original documentary" ; A conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes ; production photographs ; production notes ; re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart ; theatrical trailer.
National Film Preservation Board, 1997: selection to the National Film Registry.
Special features: "Rear window ethics : an original documentary;" featurette: a conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes; production photographs; production notes; re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart; theatrical trailer -- Featurette: A conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes ; Production photographs ; Production notes ; Re-release trailer / narrated by James Stewart ; Theatrical trailer.