Rear Window

Rear Window
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
Screenplay byJohn Michael Hayes
Based on"It Had to Be Murder"
1942 story in Dime Detective
by Cornell Woolrich
Produced byAlfred Hitchcock
Starring
CinematographyRobert Burks
Edited byGeorge Tomasini
Music byFranz Waxman
Production
company
Patron Inc.
Distributed byParamount Pictures[N 1]
Release dates
  • August 4, 1954 (1954-08-04) (New York City)
  • September 1, 1954 (1954-09-01) (United States)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million
Box office$37 million[3]

Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder. Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

Rear Window is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best,[4] as well as one of the greatest films ever made. It received four Academy Award nominations, and was ranked number 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and number 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition, and in 1997 was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[5][6]

The film was made with a budget of $1 million ($11,675,427.51 in 2024 inflation), and grossed $37 million ($431,990,817.84 in 2024 inflation) at the box office.[7]

  1. ^ McGilligan, Patrick (2003). Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. Wiley. p. 653.
  2. ^ Rossen, Jake (February 5, 2016). "When Hitchcock Banned Audiences from Seeing His Movies". Mental Floss. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  3. ^ "Rear Window (1954)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  4. ^ "Rear Window (1954)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
  5. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  6. ^ "New to the National Film Registry (December 1997) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  7. ^ https://www.usinflationcalculator.com


Cite error: There are <ref group=N> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=N}} template (see the help page).


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Tubidy