Rear window /
Patron, Inc. ; director-producer, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, John Michael Hayes.
, U.S.
- 2 dvd's sound, color ; 12 in. videodisc.
- 1 hr 55 min
Copyright: Patron, Inc.; 1Sep54; LP3992. Based on the short story of the same title by Cornell Woolrich (pseud.). On videodisc jacket: MCA Home Video 40081. Sources used: M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card, PREMARC LCCN Fi54-1019; Ross & Nash's The motion picture guide, 1927-1983, p. 2552-2553; videodisc jacket.
Photography, Robert Burks ; music, Franz Waxman ; editor, George Tomasini ; costumes, Edith Head. Photography, Robert Burks ; music, Franz Waxman ; editor, George Tomasini ; costumes, Edith Head.
James Stewart (L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries), Grace Kelly (Lisa Carol Fremont), Wendell Corey (Det. Thomas Doyle), Thelma Ritter (Stella), Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald), Alfred Hitchcock (Butler in songwriter's apartment).
A suspense melodrama. Confined to a wheel chair with a broken leg, a news photographer becomes suspicious of murder as he passes the time by surreptitiously watching several neighbors from the rear window of his Greenwich Village apartment.