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Rope (1948)

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Rope
Approved
Drama
Crime
Mystery

Two young men commit a murder merely for the intellectual challenge and then host a dinner party, using the chest containing the body as a buffet table to flaunt their perceived intellectual superiority. As their former schoolmaster grows increasingly suspicious, tension mounts, culminating in a dramatic confrontation.

Release Date
September 25, 1948
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
James Stewart , John Dall , Farley Granger , Dick Hogan , Edith Evanson , Cedric Hardwicke
Runtime
80 Minutes
Writers
Hume Cronyn , Patrick Hamilton , Arthur Laurents , Ben Hecht