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Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 20395 | Universal StudiosLanguage: English, French Original language: English Series: Alfred Hitchcock collectionPublication details: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Pictures, [2001], c1954.Edition: Collector's ed., widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0783237391
  • 9780783237398
Other title:
  • Rear window
Uniform titles:
  • Rear window (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .R42 2001
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Robert Burks ; editor, George Tomasini ; music, Franz Waxman ; art direction, Joseph MacMillian Johnson, Hal Pereira ; costume designer, Edith Head.
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.Summary: As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD HIT 14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000537922

Based on a short story "Rear window" by Cornell Woolrich.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.

Accompanying booklet contains production notes.

Special features: an original documentary; featurette: "A conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes"; production photographs; re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart; the script; DVD-ROM features include access to the original script and other related materials.

Director of photography, Robert Burks ; editor, George Tomasini ; music, Franz Waxman ; art direction, Joseph MacMillian Johnson, Hal Pereira ; costume designer, Edith Head.

James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.

As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD; Dolby digital.

English or French dialogue, Spanish subtitles; closed captioned.

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