Rope

Also Known As: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope

Company: Warner Bros. / Transatlantic Pictures

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Budget: $1,500,000

Full Cast: Dick Hogan / John Dall / Farley Granger / Edith Evanson / Douglas Dick / Joan Chandler / Cedric Hardwicke / Constance Collier / James Stewart / Alfred Hitchcock

Cast and Character: Dick Hogan as David Kentley / John Dall as Brandon - His Friend / Farley Granger as Phillip - His Friend / Edith Evanson as Mrs. Wilson - Their Housekeeper / Douglas Dick as Kenneth - Their Rival / Joan Chandler as Janet - David's Girl / Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. Kentley - David's Father / Constance Collier as Mrs. Atwater - David's Aunt / James Stewart as Rupert Cadell

Trailer: n/A

Color: Color

Countries: USA

Creators: n/A

Description: Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock

Genres: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Languages: English

Location: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: n/A

Plot: Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancée Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.

Poster: posters/0040746.jpg

Rating: 8.1

Release Date: 28 August 1948 (USA)

Runtime: 80 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: It Begins With a Shriek... It Ends With a Shot!

Title: Rope

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/

Votes: 62,411

Writers: Hume Cronyn / Patrick Hamilton

Year: 1948

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Rope got rated 8.1.

About the movie: Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancée Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.

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The Exorcist got rated 8.0.

About the movie: A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.

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The Manchurian Candidate got rated 6.6.

About the movie: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

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"Page to Screen" LA Confidential got rated n/A.

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