Rope

Rope

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Universal City, CA : Universal, c2000.
Description:	1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	English
Series:	Alfred Hitchcock collection
Subject:	Hamilton, Patrick, -- 1904 March 17-1962. Murder -- Drama. Strangling -- Drama. Deception -- Drama. Deception. Murder. Strangling. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Motion pictures, British. Film noir. Drama. Film adaptations.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5968926

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Title on container: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Other uniform titles:	Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980. Stewart, James, 1908-1997 Granger, Farley. Dall, John, 1918-1971. Hamilton, Patrick, 1904 March 17-1962. Rope.
Other authors / contributors:	Universal Pictures (Firm)
ISBN:	0783254660
Notes:	Title from videocassette label. Videocassette release of the 1948 motion picture. Directors of photography, Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall ; film editor, William H. Ziegler ; adapted by Hume Cronyn from the play by Patrick Hamilton ; screenplay by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler. DVD. Closed-captioned.
Summary:	Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Target Audience:	Rated PG.
Publisher's no.:	20671 Universal

Description
Summary:	Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with Nietzschean philosophy by their kindly professor James Stewart, Granger and Dall kill a third friend just for the thrill of it. The boys hide the body in an antique chest in the middle of their posh apartment, then perversely arrange to hold a dinner party around the chest, inviting the victim's family, friends and fiancee (Joan Chandler), as well as their intellectual role-model Stewart. As the guests wander obliviously around the sealed chest, the killers make snippy, veiled comments about their deed--never going so far as to reveal the existence of the body nor their involvement in the murder. As all the guests file out, however, professor Stewart begins to suspect that something is amiss. In Rope, Hitchcock attempted the daunting technical challenge of filming the entire picture in one long, seemingly uninterrupted take. Actually, there are several edits in the movie: since a reel of film was divided into two ten-minute minireels back in 1948, the internal reel-breaks are "fudged" by having a dark object briefly obscure the camera lens, sustaining the illusion that no editing has taken place. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Item Description:	Title from videocassette label. Videocassette release of the 1948 motion picture.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD.
Audience:	Rated PG.
Production Credits:	Directors of photography, Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall ; film editor, William H. Ziegler ; adapted by Hume Cronyn from the play by Patrick Hamilton ; screenplay by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
ISBN:	0783254660