Rope - 1963 RR

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Size: 23 x 32 Inches (60 x 80 cm)

An original French Moyenne poster for the 1963 re-release of Hitchcock’s classic 1948 thriller “La Corde” 

An American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.

The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched-together long takes.

The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. 

Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from prep school, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise: they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".

“Nothing Ever Held You Like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE”

Tags: 1960s Thriller Hitchcock Drama French Moyenne American