Movie
Rope
1948PG1h 21m7.9 / 10
It begins with a shriek...it ends with a shot! From beginning to end, nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE!
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
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Synopsis
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
More about Rope
Cast
James StewartRupert Cadell
John DallBrandon Shaw
Farley GrangerPhillip Morgan
Cedric HardwickeMr. Henry Kentley
Constance CollierMrs. Anita Atwater
Douglas DickKenneth Lawrence
Edith EvansonMrs. Wilson
Dick HoganDavid KentleyCredits
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- Arthur Laurents
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $2.2M
Production
- Transatlantic PicturesUnited States
Themes
academiabanquetbased on play or musicaldinner partyintensemurderphilosophyrope
