Nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Two coIlege friends, Phillip Morgan (FarIey Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall), murder a third friend just for the thriII of it, hiding his body in an antique chest in the middle of their New York apartment. They then proceed to arrogantIy hoId a perverse dinner party around this chest, inviting the victim's family, friends and fiancee, as weIl as their inteIIectual role-model, professor Rupert CadeIl (James Stewart). StyIishly shot in intricate ten-minute-long takes by AIfred Hitchcock. |