Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,963
edits
Rope: Difference between revisions
m
removed Category:Alfred Hitchcock; added Category:Works by Alfred Hitchcock using HotCat
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (tropelist) |
m (removed Category:Alfred Hitchcock; added Category:Works by Alfred Hitchcock using HotCat) |
||
| (7 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 4:
{{quote|The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of this world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect murder. Course he, uh, he was a Harvard undergraduate. That might make it justifiable homicide.|'''Brandon'''}}
A 1929 stage play by Patrick Hamilton, more famously know as the 1948 [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film that was shot in ten takes.
One day, two elite young Manhattanites, Brandon Shaw (John Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Farley Granger), murder their acquaintance, David Kentley, and hide [[MacGuffin|the body]] in a chest. Their reason for doing so is to commit the perfect murder; to see how perfect it is, they host a party with the chest in plain-sight. All the guests in the party, including David's fiancé Janet Walker (Joan Chandler) and the killers' former teacher, Rupert Cadell ([[James Stewart]]), grow worried at his absence. As Brandon pushes his luck, Phillip shows remorse and Rupert investigates his suspicions. All of this leads to a discovery...
The film is particularly known for its experimental style. Hitchcock abandoned typical shooting and editing methods in favor of long unbroken scenes. Each shot ran continuously for up to ten minutes without interruption. He would went to use the same technique in ''[[Under Capricorn]]'' (1949) and to a lesser extent ''[[Stage Fright (film)|Stage Fright]]'' (1950). The homosexuality subtext was also considered daring for its time. While not a major hit at the time of its release, the
----
Line 49:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Films of the 1940s]]
[[Category:The Forties]]▼
[[Category:Rope]]
[[Category:Theatrical Productions]]
[[Category:Works by Alfred Hitchcock]]
[[Category:Films Based on Plays]]
[[Category:Theatre of the 1920s]]
| |||