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Rope
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
PG
1948
81m
Crime
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7.9
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Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
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Cast of Rope
John Dall
Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger
Phillip Morgan
James Stewart
Rupert Cadell
Joan Chandler
Janet Walker
Douglas Dick
Kenneth Lawrence
Edith Evanson
Mrs. Wilson
Constance Collier
Mrs. Anita Atwater
Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Henry Kentley
Dick Hogan
David Kentley
Alfred Hitchcock
Man Walking in Street After Opening Credits (uncredited)
Rope Ratings & Reviews
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Keith Uhlich
Hitchcock examines his and his audience's participatory roles in a centuries-old circuit of art production and reception. -Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin
Horror Queers Podcast
Trace Thurman
An entertaining exercise in technical prowess, if not exactly suspense. The queer undertones alone make it worth a watch, though.
Niagara Gazette
Michael Calleri
"Rope" is a wonderful exercise in technique and the party guest characters are performed deliciously. Pay attention to the spectacular panorama of Manhattan's gleaming skyline.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
Hitchcock manages to keep everything light and humorous, but not without taking a couple of shots at a callous society actively choosing not to hear what they don't like.
Washington Star
Jay Carmody
The resultant study of high class homicide is revolutionary, which, spectacular though the word may sound, does not mean that Rope is Hitchcock's best screenplay.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
In photographing the action, Director Hitchcock brought off a tour de force.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
Although the story of this verbose film is intriguing, it's not top-drawer Hitchcock.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Hitchcock liked to pretend that the film was an empty technical exercise, but it introduces the principal themes and motifs of the major period that would begin with Rear Window.
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
Rope is an interesting experiment which largely succeeds.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
While its fearless attempt to do something new makes it one of Hitchcock's most interesting movies, I can't pretend to regard it as anywhere near his best.
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
Rope isn't merely a terrific movie; it is also a benchmark for which the intricate nature of the killer's mind can be simplified into immense clarity.
Variety
Variety Staff
Hitchcock could have chosen a more entertaining subject with which to use the arresting camera and staging technique displayed in Rope. Theme is of a thrill murder, done for no reason but to satisfy a sadistical urge and intellectual vanity.
BDK Reviews
Kevin McCarthy
Rope is Hitchock's underrated classic that contains some of the most unique filmmaking of it's time. Hitchcock was so far ahead of filmmakers back then and so far ahead of a lot of the filmmakers today.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Serves only as perverse entertainment.
The Film Experience
Nathaniel Rogers
An elaborately perverse buffet served up at a pivotal moment in Hitchcock's career
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
"A crime for most, a privilege for some" is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Hitchcock said it was a stunt, but Rope is a fascinating experiment trying to find the cinematic equivalent to a play, with the camera constantly searching
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Apart from the tedium of waiting or someone to open that chest and discover the hidden body which the hosts have tucked away for the sake of a thrill, the unpunctuated flow of image becomes quite monotonous.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Rope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary.
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