Rear Window (1954)

	Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock	COUNTRY USA GENRE Thriller NORSK TITTEL Vinduet mot bakgården SPILLETID 112 minutter
	Produced by: John Michael Hayes
	Written by: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries	James Stewart	½
Lisa Fermont	Grace Kelly
Detective Thomas J. Doyle	Wendell Corey	-
Stella	Thelma Ritter
Lars Thorwald	Raymond Burr

Review

One of Hitchcock's all-time greats, Rear Window is a marvel of technical simplicity and purism. Filmed in a lavishly built Paramount Studios sound stage from a single perspective – the apartment of the temporarily crippled photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) – the film is an odyssey of voyeurism, fuelled by Hitchcock's inner transgressions. As our bored protagonist starts suspecting foul play in one of the apartments across the courtyard from his Greenwich Village residence, his girlfriend (Grace Kelly) and home nurse (Thelma Ritter) go from sceptical decency to gleeful suspicion over the course of the picture. It's all a peculiar prophecy of the passive perversity of the online era that humanity would enter half a century later. Perhaps the most fundamental and chilling of Rear Window's many strokes of genius is that deep down we're all either Jeff, Lisa or Stella. Other people's misery is wickedly exhilarating to us, and it is exactly into this delicate ethical yolk Hitchcock plunges us – with utmost precision and technical brilliance.