DVD : Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195018258
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Languages:
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD61102353D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1954
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This taut suspense thriller revolves around a wheelchair-bound newspaper photographer who is trying to solve a murder he witnessed while gazing out his rear window. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/07/2008 Starring: James Stewart Thelma Ritter Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg
Amazon.com essential video:
Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist’s imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder.
Photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries (James Stewart) is, in fact, a voyeur by trade, a professional photographer sidelined by an accident while on assignment. His immersion in the human drama (and comedy) visible from his window is a by-product of boredom, underlined by the disapproval of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and a wisecracking visiting nurse (Thelma Ritter). Yet when the invalid wife of Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) disappears, Jeff enlists the two women to help him to determine whether she’s really left town, as Thorwald insists, or been murdered.
Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto convincingly argues that the crime at the center of this mystery is the MacGuffin–a mere pretext–in a film that’s more interested in the implications of Jeff’s sentinel perspective. We actually learn more about the lives of the other neighbors (given generic names by Jeff, even as he’s drawn into their lives) he, and we, watch undetected than we do the putative murderer and his victim. Jeff’s evident fear of intimacy and commitment with the elegant, adoring Lisa provides the other vital thread to the script, one woven not only into the couple’s own relationship, but reflected and even commented upon through the various neighbors’ lives.
At minimum, Hitchcock’s skill at making us accomplices to Jeff’s spying, coupled with an ingenious escalation of suspense as the teasingly vague evidence coalesces into ominous proof, deliver a superb thriller spiked with droll humor, right up to its nail-biting, nightmarish climax. At deeper levels, however, Rear Window plumbs issues of moral responsibility and emotional honesty, while offering further proof (were any needed) of the director’s brilliance as a visual storyteller. –Sam Sutherland
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: 
- 3 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
Though Rear Window is often acclaimed as one of Hitchcock’s best, it comes up short in the suspense department (it’s fairly obvious how things are going to proceed) and thus stands as a technically proficient thriller that embraces conventions instead of transcending them.
Rating: 
- Poor Casting for Kelly, Poor Writing for Hitch
I am a big fan of both Grace Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock, but I really think this film is ridiculous. We are made to believe that somehow this photographer (Stewart) is holed up in his shoddy back-alley apartment due to an injury, but his gorgeous socialite girlfriend (Kelly) is not at all averse to hanging out there constantly. She looks as out of place as a Tiffany lamp in a public restroom. There is also a ridiculous attempt at sexualizing Kelly, involving her showing Stewart a piece of not-so … Read More
Rating: 
- a completely original suspense masterpiece!
One of the most original films ever made! A man in a wheelchair, with a leg in a cast is trapped in his Greenwich Village one room apartment, watching his neighbours through the window onto a courtyard, during a heat wave in the summer. Sometimes what you see, you don’t believe and what you believe you don’t see and that can be murder. The set-up and premise of the film is outstanding and completely original. With excellent dialogue and excellently mounted scenes without dialogue, Hitchcock enters … Read More
Rating: - No Dream Sequence PLEASE
The Dream Sequence referred to in the last review was never part of the original film. It was inserted by local television stations in a lame attempt to recapitulate the plot for those who had tuned in late. Exactly the kind of butchering that should be prevented by copywright laws. The current restoration is completely faithful to the original film.
Rating: - Restorers’ Error
Restorers’ Error
What the restorers of Rear Window don’t know is that there exist two dream sequences in the first part of the movie.
The first takes place after Grace Kelly leaves, and James Stewart has heard the scream from across the courtyard. Thelma Ritter, Grace Kelly, and the courtyard are shown while dialogue from Thelma Ritter’s argument with Stewart about Lisa, and Lisa’s argument with Stewart, are heard with an echo. The composer’s new song is heard.
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