It's Just A Flesh Wound are absolutely amazed and delighted to be able to pick, with our 5th choice, representing our per-1960's category for now Alfred Hitchcock's classic......
"Rear Window" (1954).
To say that I'm amazed that this classic thriller, considered by many to be one of Hitch's best, was still available so late in the draft is a huge understatement. IJAFW feel extremely lucky to be able to add this solid contributor to our lineup.
Rear Window is a
1954 film directed by
Alfred Hitchcock, based on
Cornell Woolrich's 1942
short story It Had to Be Murder.
The movie stars
James Stewart as photojournalist L. B. Jeffries,
Grace Kelly as his fashion-model girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont, and
Raymond Burr as the suspected killer, Lars Thorwald. The film combines its main theme, a murder mystery, with a critical examination of the ethics of
marriage and
voyeurism.
The film is considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.
[1] Rear Window is one of several films directed by Hitchcock and originally released by Paramount Pictures that were later acquired by Universal Studios.
Rear Window Tribute.
Don't watch these next two clips if you've never seen the film. And if you haven't go and rent or buy it today!
Good Rear Window Documentary