A suspense melodrama. Confined to a wheel chair with a broken leg, a news photographer becomes suspicious of murder as he passes the time by surreptitiously watching several neighbors from the rear window of his Greenwich Village apartment.
Publisher:United States : Paramount Pictures Corp., 1954 ; United States.
General Note: Sources used: M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card, PREMARC LCCN Fi54-1019; Ross & Nash's The motion picture guide, 1927-1983, p. 2552-2553; videodisc jacket.On videodisc jacket: MCA Home Video 40081.Based on the short story of the same title by Cornell Woolrich (pseud.).Summary taken from M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card, PREMARC LCCN Fi54-1019.Disc 2 Bonus Features - Rear Window Ethics, a Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes, Pure Cinema: through the eveyes of the Master, Hitchcock/Truffault interview excerpts, and Alfred Hitchcock presents "Mr. Blanchard's Secret".Disc 1 Bonus Features - Feature Commentary with John Fawell, Production photographs, Production notes, Theatrical trailer, Re-release Trailer.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Photograpy, Robert Burks ; music, Franz Waxman ; editor, George Tomasini ; costumes, Edith Head.
Participant or Performer Note: James Stewart (L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries), Grace Kelly (Lisa Carol Fremont), Wendell Corey (Det. Thomas Doyle), Thelma Ritter (Stella), Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald), Alfred Hitchcock (Butler in songwriter's apartment).