Rear Window (1954)
A Hitchcock classic, and the second film on our list to star future princess Grace Kelly.
Rear Window is a fascinating, fast-moving film is about our natural inclination to pry — whether online, or, back in the day, into our neighbor’s windows. Jimmy Stewart plays a news photographer sidelined by a broken leg who doesn’t appreciate what a seemingly perfect thing he has going with Lisa (Kelly, above).
He ponders single life, represented by the ballet dancer Miss Torso (Georgine Darcy) and the sometimes grim compromises of co-habitation. There’s a point in the film when it’s absolutely impossible to guess what will happen next. And then things get really good.
It’s now available on the Criterion Channel.
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