A freelance travelling news photographer with a broken leg is confined in his Greenwich Village apartment during a New York heatwave. A voyeuristic impulse leads him from curiosity to suspicion of murder as he observes his neighbours in the apartments opposite. His morbid curiosity is marked by a switch from binoculars to a telephoto lens as he watches a ‘silent’ film of other people’s lives. To Hitchcock it was the visual construction of a mental process, ‘the epitome of the subjective treatment’. Cast includes James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter. Screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on a the short story by Cornell Woolrich. Photography by Robert Burks. Music by Franz Waxman.
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ACMI Identifier
316254
Languages
Danish
Dutch
English
English
English
Finnish
German
German
Norwegian
Swedish
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture trailers
Courtroom, Crime, Espionage & Thrillers
Courtroom, Crime, Espionage & Thrillers → Detective and mystery films
Courtroom, Crime, Espionage & Thrillers → Suspense
Courtroom, Crime, Espionage & Thrillers → Thrillers
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Voyeurism
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Voyeurism
Literature → American literature - Film and video adaptations
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
DVD; Access Print (Section 1)