Genre: Crime / Mystery / Romance / Thriller Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock Release Date: 01 January 1954 Movie rating: 8.5

They say that many younger people who are into watching movies on a regular basis are often surprised to see an older movie with very high ratings. That is the case with Rear Window. This movie was released in 1954 and it is definitely one of the important masterpieces of Hollywood. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock it is yet one of his great ones, including Psycho and The Birds. In this horror you get to see James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr and many other great actors of that time. The story follows a professional photograph L.B. Jeff Jeffries who is a prisoner of sorts in his apartment. Most of the time he is just observing the people around him, mostly his neighbors and that is what you will see in the beginning of the movie. That includes a married couple, a middle-aged woman, and a ballerina. She is very beautiful and it is not difficult for her to attract men no matter what she is doing. One neighbor especially intrigues him, Lars Thorwald. He is a salesman who travels all over the country and he has an invalid wife who is spending her life in bed. One night, she disappears and Lars goes out several nights in a row while it's raining. That makes Jeff wonder what is going on...

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