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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, quotes, and more for this classic film.
- (150K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1948-09-25
A movie adaptation of a play inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder case, starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger. Hitchcock tried to create suspense without cuts or edits, but the result is curiously limp and unfocused.
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (John Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Farley Granger), strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
Joan Chandler. Janet Walker. Cedric Hardwicke. Mr. Kentley (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke) Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan (Farley Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall) strangle a...
- (2.5K)
- Alfred Hitchcock
- PG
- James Stewart
Synopsis. John Brandon and his friend and roommate, pianist Phillip, strangle their mutual friend, David Kentley, with a piece of rope and then temporarily place his body in a trunk, intending to dispose of it in the country that night. Over champagne, Brandon boasts to Phillip that they have committed the perfect crime because they are ...
Two men murder a man in cold blood for the thrill and invite his parents over for a celebration to prove they have committed the perfect crime, but they also have to deal with their former schoolmaster, who becomes suspicious. Alfred Hitchcock. Arthur Laurents. Written by James on October 20, 2023. Two men murder a man in cold blood for the ...
