Synopsis
Two men murder a man in cold blood for the thrill and invite his parents over for a celebration to prove they have committed the perfect crime, but they also have to deal with their former schoolmaster, who becomes suspicious.
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Cast
- James StewartRupert Cadell
- John DallBrandon Shaw
- Farley GrangerPhillip Morgan
- Edith EvansonMrs. Wilson
- Joan ChandlerJanet Walker
- Cedric HardwickeMr. Henry Kentley
- Constance CollierMrs. Anita Atwater
- Douglas DickKenneth Lawrence
- Dick HoganDavid Kentley
- Alfred HitchcockMan Walking in Street After Opening Credits (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 100
The New York Times
Rope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary. - 100
Chicago Tribune
One of the cinema's supreme, most outrageously eccentric and audacious technical experiments: the legendary single shot movie. - 88
Slant Magazine
A crime for most, a privilege for some is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII. - 80
Empire
A strange foreboding of what was to come from the Hitch. - 80
Time Out
Perverse, provocative entertainment. - 63
Chicago Reader
Hitchcock liked to pretend that the film was an empty technical exercise, but it introduces the principal themes and motifs of the major period that would begin with Rear Window. - 60
Variety
Hitchcock could have chosen a more entertaining subject with which to use the arresting camera and staging technique displayed in Rope. Theme is of a thrill murder, done for no reason but to satisfy a sadistical urge and intellectual vanity. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Stewart seems uncomfortable playing an intellectual; his dull performance never displays the disturbance or authority that it needs.
