Moonbeam Baby's blog: Rear Window

~ Movie Review ~

Rear Window
Ever since the first time I saw The Birds, I've been an Alfred Hitchcock fan. I've seen Rear Window several times, and I think it's probably my favorite Hitchcock film. I love his inventive use of lighting and camera angles, and I also like the way many of his films contain cameo appearances by Hitchcock himself. Stan Lee and Stephen King do the same thing - you can spot them in several of their movies and made-for-TV specials. I love James Stewart, and paired with Grace Kelly and Thelma Ritter... there's some real star-power there.

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L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies (James Stewart) is a professional photographer who has been confined to his Greenwich Village apartment after an accident has left him with his leg in a cast.
Suffering from boredom, he takes to spying on his neighbors through the rear window. His view of the back of several apartment buildings, their inner courtyard, and the persons dwelling within at first have a strongly Norman Rockwell feel about them. Over time, however, Jeff comes to believe that a murder has taken place in the building across the courtyard, though his friends and his girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly) initially think his beliefs are imagined due to his idle behavior.
Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In Rear Window he can be seen (26 minutes into the film) in the composer's apartment winding a clock.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I give this movie 5 out of 5 stars. *****