:IMAGE.half :INFO.half Rear Window (1954) Hitchcock never leaves the apartment, gives his hero a broken leg and makes the audience do the spying. :STATS [icon:CLOCK] Runtime | 112 minutes [icon:STAR] Director | Alfred Hitchcock [icon:CHART] Budget | $1 million [icon:TRENDING_UP] Box office | $37 million worldwide [icon:FIRE] Cinematography | Robert Burks :INFO A Film About Watching Films A photographer with a leg in plaster sits at his window through a New York heatwave and watches his neighbours because there is nothing else to do. Hitchcock builds the entire picture out of one gesture repeated: a man looks, we see what he sees, we see him react. That is the complete grammar of cinema reduced to three shots, and the film uses it to implicate the audience in exactly the behaviour it is depicting. The courtyard was a single enormous set on a Paramount stage with thirty one apartments, twelve of them fully furnished, drained and lit as one continuous space. There is no orchestral score. Every piece of music comes from a radio, a piano in one of the flats or a party across the yard, so the sound belongs to the world being watched. :JOURNEY Watching Rear Window 2 Idle 3 Catalogued 4 Suspicious 4 Enlisted 5 Excavated 5 Exposed :QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Stella · Rear Window · 1954] We've become a race of Peeping Toms. :CHECKLIST What to watch for [ ] The three shot grammar: Jeff looks, the courtyard, Jeff reacts [ ] Every note of music has a source inside the set [ ] Lisa's outfits track exactly how seriously she is taking the case [ ] Miss Lonelyhearts and the composer run a second film in the background [ ] The flashbulbs in the final confrontation as a photographer's only weapon :NOTE.half The courtyard set filled a Paramount sound stage, required its own drainage for the rainstorm, and the lighting rig was so heavy it set off the stage sprinklers during a test. :NOTE.half Hitchcock shot almost everything from inside Jeff's apartment, so the audience is denied information the characters could easily get by walking across the yard. :LINK https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/ Rear Window on IMDb: full cast and crew