Rear Window [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Rear Window [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart
James Stewart
, Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
, Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter
, Wendell Corey
Wendell Corey
, Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr
Rear Window [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Rear Window [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart
James Stewart
, Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
, Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter
, Wendell Corey
Wendell Corey
, Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr

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Overview

Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires.

Product Details

Release Date: 05/06/2014
UPC: 0025192235542
Original Release: 1954
Rating: PG
Source: STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language: English
Time: 1:55:00
Sales rank: 3,099

Special Features

Rear Window ethics: an original documentary; A conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes; Pure cinema: through the eyes of the master; Breaking barriers: the sound of Hitchcock; Hitchcock/Truffaut interview excerpts; Masters of cinema; Feature commentary with John Falwell (author of "Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film"); Production photographs; Theatrical trailer; Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
James Stewart L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies
Grace Kelly Lisa Carol Fremont
Thelma Ritter Stella
Wendell Corey Lieutenant Thomas J. Doyle
Raymond Burr Mr. Lars Thorwald
Judith Evelyn Miss Lonelyheart
Ross Bagdasarian The Composer
Georgine Darcy Miss Torso
Irene Winston Mrs. Thorwald
Sara Berner Woman on Fire Escape
Ralph Smiley Carl the Waiter
Alan Lee Landlord
Frank Cady Fire Escape Man
Jesslyn Fax Miss Hearing Aid
Rand Harper Honeymooner
Havis Davenport Newlywed
Marla English Party Girl
Kathryn Grant Party Girl
Anthony Warde Detective
Bennie Bartlett Miss Torso's Friend
Barbara Bailey Choreographer
Bess Flowers Woman with Poodle
Fred Graham Stunt Detective (uncredited)
Iphigenie Castiglioni Bird Woman
Harry Landers Young Man
Richard Simmons Man,Actor
Alfred Hitchcock Butler in Songwriter's Apartment
Eddie Parker Actor
Jerry Antes Dancer
Mike Mahoney Policeman
Len Hendry Policeman
James Cornell Man
Franz Waxman Composer

Technical Credits
John Michael Hayes Screenwriter
John P. Fulton Special Effects
Alfred Hitchcock Producer
Loren L. Ryder Sound Mixer
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