Rear Window

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Rear Window is a 1954 suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a wheelchair-bound photographer who suspects his neighbor of murder while spying on his apartment courtyard.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
mystery film
suspense film
thriller film
artDirectionBy Hal Pereira
Joseph MacMillan Johnson
basedOn It Had to Be Murder
basedOnAuthor Cornell Woolrich
cinematographyBy Robert Burks
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Alfred Hitchcock
distributor Paramount Pictures
editedBy George Tomasini
femaleLeadCharacter Lisa Fremont
femaleLeadPortrayedBy Grace Kelly
genre mystery
suspense
thriller
hasColorProcess Technicolor
leadCharacter L. B. Jeffries
leadCharacterOccupation photographer
leadCharacterPortrayedBy James Stewart
musicBy Franz Waxman
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Director
Academy Award for Best Sound
surface form: Academy Award for Best Sound Recording
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
preservedIn National Film Registry
producer Alfred Hitchcock
productionCompany Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
recognizedBy National Film Registry
registrySelectionReason aesthetically significant
culturally significant
historically significant
releaseYear 1954
runtimeMinutes 112
screenwriter John Michael Hayes
setIn Greenwich Village
New York City
starring Grace Kelly
James Stewart
Raymond Burr
Thelma Ritter
Wendell Corey
theme ethics of watching
surveillance
urban isolation
voyeurism

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Alfred Hitchcock notableWork Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock directed Rear Window
Thelma Ritter notableWork Rear Window
Grace Kelly notableWork Rear Window
James Stewart notableWork Rear Window
Edith Head notableWork Rear Window
Raymond Burr participatedIn Rear Window
this entity surface form: Rear Window (1954 film)
Christopher Reeve notableWork Rear Window
this entity surface form: Rear Window (1998 TV film)
Ritter notableWork Rear Window
subject surface form: Thelma Ritter
Hal Pereira notableWork Rear Window
George Tomasini notableWork Rear Window
George Tomasini workedOn Rear Window
John Michael Hayes notableWork Rear Window
Disturbia basedOn Rear Window
this entity surface form: Rear Window (inspired by)
Joseph MacMillan Johnson workedOn Rear Window
It Had to Be Murder adaptedAs Rear Window
It Had to Be Murder adaptationTitleChange Rear Window
this entity surface form: The film adaptation was retitled "Rear Window".
Lisa Fremont partOf Rear Window
this entity surface form: Rear Window cast of characters