Rope (1948)

My Review

“Rope” is a suspense-filled story about a man at a dinner party who suspects that two people have murdered a mutual friend. Director Alfred Hitchcock filled the movie with his usual suspense-filled drama. “Rope” was filmed in “real time,” with the setting in a New York City apartment with a fantastic view of the city. It was filmed on a single sound stage at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. The marvelous screenplay by Arthur Laurents and Hume Cronyn was adapted from the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.

The cast is headed by James Stewart, in this first of four films he made with Alfred. Stewart handled the role of the suspicious college professor in his usual professional manner. Co-stars include Farley Granger, John Dall, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, and Dick Hogan. “Rope,” the first of Hitchcock’s movies filmed in Technicolor, was a success at the box office for Transatlantic Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures.