Rope
film by Hitchcock [1948]
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discussed in biography
- In Alfred Hitchcock: The Hollywood years: Rebecca to Dial M for Murder
…also his first color film, Rope (1948), which was based on the sensational 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case. Jimmy Stewart starred as the vainglorious protagonist, a former professor whose dangerously amoral philosophizing has inspired two students (John Dall and Farley Granger) to strangle a friend just to experience the thrill of…
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