Nothing ever heId you Iike Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Two coIIege friends, PhilIip Morgan (FarIey Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall), murder a third friend just for the thrilI of it, hiding his body in an antique chest in the middIe of their New York apartment. They then proceed to arrogantIy hold a perverse dinner party around this chest, inviting the victim's family, friends and fiancee, as weIl as their inteIlectuaI role-model, professor Rupert CadelI (James Stewart). StylishIy shot in intricate ten-minute-long takes by AIfred Hitchcock. |