Rope
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Universal Studios  (1948) 81 mins PG

8.1 (22,926 votes) Top 250: #212
James Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall star in this macabre spellbinder, which was inspired by a real-life case of murder. Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the "perfect murder," their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality....

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Cast and Crew
James Stewart  ......  Rupert Cadell
Farley Granger  ......  Phillip Morgan
Constance Collier  ......  Mrs. Atwater
Joan Chandler  ......  Janet Walker
Sir Cedric Hardwicke  ...... 
John Dall  ......  Brandon Shaw
Director  .....  Alfred Hitchcock
Producer  .....  Sidney Bernstein; Alfred Hitchcock
Writer  .....  Arthur Laurents; Patrick Hamilton; Hume Cronyn
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: With a cigarette in his left hand, Brandon makes a quick phone call to the garage man. After he hangs up the phone he has no cigarette. (more)

Trivia:
The apartment set showed up the following year, slightly re-furbished, in the Doris Day movie "My Dream Is Yours". (more)

Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Quotes:
[first lines]
Brandon: Open it.
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Awards:
2 nominations (more)