Rear Window

Rear Window gets two hand claps. Director Alfred Hitchcock, and cinematographer Robert Burks did a magnificent job. Based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" (1942), the thriller and mystery of the film had everybody excited and and wanting more especially in its final twenty minutes.

A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. The tenants of the other apartments offer an observant comment of marriage and a complete survey of male/female relationships (all the way from honeymooners to a murderous spouse), as Stewart(Jeff) watches through his 'rear window'.

The camera work was intersecting because throughout the whole film it was in two shooting spots. The apartment room where Stewart(Jeff) lived in and when Stewart(Jeff) fell out the window. The film was basically going from one room window into another apartment window from Stewart's(Jeff) apartment window.

Costumes was alright, it did show the time period perfectly of late 40's to early 50's. The only bad part was when the two ladies Grace Kelly (Lisa Fremont) and Thelma Ritter (Stella Dick Simmons) went into Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald) apartment and was dress in dresses. Obviously they wasn't dresses in appropriate attire for the sneak around. They were dressed in bright colors at that. They could have least worn black.

The lighting of the film was not bad. Its just that at night the lighting stayed the same Dark so it was hard to make out the faces and expression of the characters. One scene was when Grace Kelly and Thelma Ritter went to go dig out the dead body. You couldn't see the expression on there faces very clearly. Most of the lighting was close up, so you can really see face expressions only from Stewart's apartment.