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Rope |
| Published: July 14, 2007, 5:31 pm |
| Tags: thriller, drama, recommended, reviews |
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A 1948 classic psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock starring Bill favorite James Stewart along with John Dall and a young Farley Granger, Rope is a take on the sensational 1924 murder case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Hitchcock does something rarely seen these days, staging the entire film inside a single, modest-sized space, specifically the living room, foyer and dining room of an uptown Manhattan apartment. Dall and Granger are Brandon and Phillip, two upper crust young gentlemen recently graduated from an Ivy League college, whose apartment we’re looking at throughout. Having been avid pupils of Rupert Cadell, a purveyor of some very elitist, libertarian philosophy as the headmaster at their prep school, the two–but especially Brandon–are determined to act on their belief that the rules of common morality don’t apply to men of superior intellect. Just how they’ll act on it is by strangling their prep school chum David, in the opening [ Full article ] |
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