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Rope (1948)

Alfred Hitchcock had said that he took on this technically experimental picture as a "stunt".  It’s the only commercial picture in history to run in ten minute takes and cut nearly seamlessly from reel to  reel. It’s done in "real time". Exactly eighty minutes pass in the eighty minute film.

The story is based on a real live case where two men murdered a friend, just for the experience, put him in a trunk, and had a dinner party around him.  One of the guests starts getting suspicious of the men’s behavior and he sticks around after the party to find out what’s going on. After The Paradine Case, Hitchcock’s contract with producer David Selznick was up. He decided that from that point on he wanted complete artistic control over his films and started his production company: Transatlantic.

Unfortunately, after the financial disappointments of this film and Hitchcock’s next picture, Under Capricorn, the company went under and Hitchcock went on to produce independently. It is also Hitchcock’s first color picture and his first movie with Jimmy Stewart.  This film is typically dismissed by fans of Hitchcock, and even Hitchcock himself, saying that it was merely a "picture of people talking" (a quote used frequently by Hitchcock to describe movies).

Personally, we think that this is one of Hitchcock’s best and most entertaining movies and could watch it over and over.

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)

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