Rear Window
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; Academy Award for Best Sound.
- The screenplay, which was written by John Michael Hayes, was based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder.
- The lighting was rigged with four interchangeable scene lighting arrangements: morning, afternoon, evening, and night-time.
- Set designers Hal Pereira and Joseph MacMillan Johnson spent six weeks building the extremely detailed and complex set, which ended up being the largest of its kind at Paramount.
Filming Locations
- The film was shot entirely at stage 18 at Paramount Studios which included an enormous indoor set to replicate a Greenwich Village courtyard, with the set stretching from the bottom of the basement storeroom to the top of the lighting grid in the ceiling.
Previous Showings
23 Runs • 17 Festivals
60,583 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (September 19, 1954)
Original Run: September 19, 1954 (Sunday - Saturday)
All runs on record (23):
- September 19, 1954 (Sunday - Saturday)James Stewart, Grace Kelly
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