REAR WINDOW (1954) - ♦♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Alfred Hitchcock

Written by - John Michael Hayes (based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich)

Starring - James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

"Another Hitchcock masterpiece, and one of the best known film thrillers of all time. This one stars a wonderful James Stewart, once again perfectly fitting the shoes of the lead character in a Hitchcock film, whose confinement in his apartment with a broken leg and with nothing to do leads him to spy on the neighbours through their open windows and notice something wrong with one of them, a man who may have murdered his wife. The build up of atmosphere is psychologically tense, as we too the viewers are confined to the small apartment in which the lead character is restrained. The result is a grippingly memorable thriller that builds up perfectly to one of the most suspenseful endings ever committed to celluloid."

Thriller, USA