Watch trailer for Rope
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Rope
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 80 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 1948
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler
Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan (Farley Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall) strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical exercise. Hiding the body in a chest upon which they then arrange a buffet dinner, the pair welcome their guests, including the victim’s oblivious fiancĂ©e (Joan Chandler) and the college professor (James Stewart) whose lectures inadvertently inspired the killing.