Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two ...
Rope (1948) - Alfred HitchcockTwo young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the ...
Editor's note: "Essential" is a new series from Dallas Morning News critics and special contributors spotlighting timeless works of art and culture. I'd known about this 1948 Hitchcock classic since ...
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In 1948 Alfred Hitchcock, long cinematically memorialized as an editing technique pioneer, completed his crime and suspense-driven and infamously homoerotic tale “Rope,” based on the 1928 play. The ...
It’s a dilemma actors and directors face all the time: People come to the theater to see a popular title that’s also a film and expect to see the movie essentially re-created onstage. When that play ...