Rope (Alfred Hitchcock's Rope)
Farley Granger and James Stewart Category: Thriller Year: See also: 1947 in film 1948 1949 in film 1940s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films North America The Red Shoes, (55th in year of release, lifetime box office would place it in first) The Road to Rio Easter Parade Red River The Three Musketeers, Johnny...1948 Company: Transatlantic Pictures, Warner Bros. ...Warner Brothers Running time: 80 minutes
Starring:	Jimmy Stewart, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own personality. ...James Stewart, John Dall (May 26, 1918 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor. ...John Dall, Granger with costar Ann Blyth in Our Very Own (1950). ...Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwick, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, Joan Chandler, Dick Hogan
Director:	Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ...Alfred Hitchcock, H.C. Potter
Producer:	Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ...Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein
Screenplay:	There have been several well_known people named Patrick Hamilton, including: Patrick Hamilton (martyr) Patrick Hamilton (dramatist) ...Patrick Hamilton (play), Hume Blake Cronyn (July 18, 1911 _ June 15, 2003) was a stage and film actor. ...Hume Cronyn, Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. ...Arthur Laurents, Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 _ April 18, 1964) was one of the most prolific of all Hollywood screenwriters, even though he professed hatred and disdain for the motion picture industry. ...Ben Hecht (uncredited)
Cinematographer:	William V. Skall, Joseph Valentine
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Rope ( 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...1948) is an Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ...Alfred Hitchcock film notable for appearing to be one continuous shot. It is based on the play "Rope's End" by Patrick Hamilton, which was in turn inspired by the real_life murder of a young boy in 1924 by two college students named Nathan Leopold (left) and Richard Loeb (center) under arrest Nathan Leopold, Jr. ...Leopold and Loeb. Two brilliant aesthetes ( John Dall (May 26, 1918 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor. ...John Dall and Granger with costar Ann Blyth in Our Very Own (1950). ...Farley Granger) plan the perfect murder in the spirit of lectures on the The idea of the Art of Murder is an expression of the modern notion that art, except for pure esthetics, is amoral, that murders may be dull, mundane and ordinary, or that they may be interesting and beautiful. ...art of murder once made by their erstwhile housemaster ( Jimmy Stewart, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own personality. ...James Stewart). They strangle a former classmate and hide his body in a chest in their apartment, whereupon they throw a party for the victim's family and others from the school, thus, they believe, demonstrating their superiority. When Stewart realizes at the end that his two former students have indeed murdered, he is horrified __ and ashamed of his own rhetoric.

Hitchcock was both In the entertainment industry, a producer is generally in charge of, or helps to coordinate, the financial, legal, administrative, technological, and artistic aspects of a production. ...producer and The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...director. Except for the 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...1932 film Lord Camber's Ladies, which was Hitchcock's only association with that film, Rope is the first movie for which Hitchcock receives a credit as producer (he was the uncredited producer on Number 13, Suspicion (1941) is a film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. ...Suspicion and Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in a scene from this highly regarded film. ...Notorious.)

Rope employed numerous innovations:

• This was Hitchcock's first color film.
• It was shot on a single set.
• Each shot ran continuously for up to ten minutes without interruption. Camera moves were planned in advance and there was almost no editing.

Hitchcock filmed each scene in segments lasting up to ten minutes (the length of a reel of film at the time), each segment continuously panning from character to character in real time. Several segments end by panning against or zooming into an object (a man's jacket, or the back of a piece of furniture, for example) or by having an actor move in front of the camera, blocking the entire screen; each scene after that starts a static shot of that same object. In this way Hitchcock effectively masked some (but not all) of the cuts in the film.

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Although it is commonly believed that all the cuts in Rope are hidden, in fact, only half are. Another misconception is that all the shots last ten minutes. Actually, of the ten shots used for the film, only three approach or exceed the ten minute mark. Five of the shots range between seven and eight minutes, and the penultimate and final shots last only about four_and_a_half and five_and_a_half minutes, respectively. A description of the beginning and end of each reel follows, with the approximate duration of the shot given in parentheses.

• R1 CU strangulation to Blackout on Brandon's back. (9:34)
• R2 Black, pan off Brandon's back to CU Kenneth: "What do you mean?" (7:51)
• R3 Unmasked cut, men crossing to Janet to Blackout on Kenneth's back. (7:18)
• R4 Black, pan off Kenneth's back to CU Phillip: "That's a lie." (7:08)
• R5 Unmasked cut, CU Rupert to Blackout on Brandon's back. (9:57)
• R6 Black, pan off Brandon's back to Three shot. (7:33)
• R7 Unmasked cut, Mrs. Wilson: "Pardon me, sir."to Blackout on Brandon.(7:46)
• R8 Black, pan off Brandon to CU Brandon's hand in gun pocket. (10:06)
• R9 Unmasked cut, CU Rupert to Blackout on lid of chest. (4:37)
• R10 Black, pan up from lid of chest to End. (5:38)

Hitchcock used this long_take approach again on his next film, Under Capricorn.

Rope may be considered a Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...homoerotic movie. The film clearly indicates that the two murderers in the film were having an affair. Even though homosexuality was a highly controversial theme for the 1940's the movie made it through censorship. Both John Dall (May 26, 1918 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor. ...Dall and Granger with costar Ann Blyth in Our Very Own (1950). ...Granger were actually gay in real life, as was Arthur Laurents the script writer __ even the piano score played by Granger (Mouvement Perpétuel No. 1 by Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 _ January 30, 1963) was a French composer. ...Francis Poulenc) is the work of a gay composer. Granger's role was first offered to another homosexual actor, Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 _ July 23, 1966) was an American actor. ...Montgomery Clift, who turned the offer down, probably due to the risks of coming out in public. Nathan Leopold (left) and Richard Loeb (center) under arrest Nathan Leopold, Jr. ...Leopold and Loeb, who the students' roles are based upon were in fact also gay. In There have been several well_known people named Patrick Hamilton, including: Patrick Hamilton (martyr) Patrick Hamilton (dramatist) ...Hamilton's play Rope's End, the dialogue is much more Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...homoerotic and so is relationship between the students and their teacher. Many of these "risky" elements were removed from the script as the play was rewritten for the film, due to the censorship of the time. Despite this, Hitchcock managed to supply much subtext which made it past the rigorous tests of the censor.

Three other films, Compulsion (film), Swoon and Murder by Numbers is a 2002 motion picture that tells a story of two teenage serial killers. ...Murder by Numbers, were also based on the Leopold and Loeb case.

External links

• Rope (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/) at the The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ...Internet Movie Database