Movie #27: Rear Window

Movie #: 27
Movie Title: Rear Window
Year Released: 1954

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Notable Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

Short Description: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #48
IMDB.com: #28
Ranker.com: #77
Lifed.com: #15
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #42
FlickChart.com: #10



Date Watched: 11/11/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: Let me start by saying that Rear Window was quite the improvement on the last James Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock collaboration I watched (Vertigo). I only gave Rear Window a 3 out of 5, though, because I was expecting a twist in the story regarding the suspected murderer and it never happened. All of the main actors and actresses did a fine job building upon the sense of suspense as the story progresses towards a confrontation with the suspected murderer. I just wish it wasn't so black and white that the killer was indeed the killer.