James Stewart
Rupert Cadell
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Budget. $1,510,000 [3] [4] or. $2 million [5] Box office. $2.2 million (rentals) [6] or $2,748,000 [3] The film's trailer. Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.
- $1,510,000 or, $2 million
- Alfred Hitchcock, Uncredited:, Sidney Bernstein
Two men host a dinner party after killing their former classmate and placing his body in a chest. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, and more for this classic film.
- (150K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1948-09-25
A film adaptation of a play about two college students who murder a professor and hide his body in a trunk, with no visible cuts or jumps in time. Hitchcock's innovative technique of shooting without interruption and using a moving camera to create suspense and drama, but also criticizes the film as "curiously limp and unfocused".
Two friends kill a man and hide the body in a chest at a dinner party, while a professor (Stewart) watches them. Rope is a 1948 film that experiments with Technicolor and long takes, and explores themes of art, morality and society.
- (54)
- Alfred Hitchcock
- PG
- James Stewart
Phillip is the one who strangles David with a piece of rope while Brandon restrains David until he dies. After hiding the body in a large antique wooden chest, Brandon and Phillip prepare to host a dinner party at the apartment, which has a panoramic view of Manhattan's skyline. Brandon decides to use the chest containing the body as a buffet ...
Rope (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Think You Appreciate Me Having murdered a friend for fun, New Yorker Brandon (John Dall) springs an idea on less confident David (Farley Granger), regarding the trunk that holds the body, with director Alfred Hitchcock’s first disguised edit in his movie made to look like a single take, the loosely Loeb & Leopold-based, Edith Evanson their maid, in Rope, 1948.
Two men kill a man and invite his parents and a teacher to their apartment to show off their crime. But they are not as clever as they think and face a shocking twist.
