Considered one of Hitchcok's best, comes across a bit dated in the 21st century.

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2002)

Generally considered one of the best of all time, "Rear Window" is a very simple story filmed in the Hitchcock manner to provide suspense. I rate it "8" of 10. Jeff (Jimmy Stewart) is a world-traveling photographer confined for several weeks to his Greenwich Village apartment by a broken leg and cast up to the hip. He soon spends all his waking hours watching his apartment neighbors across the courtyard through his rear window, using binoculars and the telephoto lens and camera. Eye-candy is provided by 25-year-old Grace Kelly, in the same year she made "Dial M for Murder", and only a few years before she became Grace of Monaco. (Current starlet Julie Bowen of TV series "Ed" looks amazingly like Grace Kelly).
As Jeff watched neighbors, he becomes suspicious of one (Raymond Burr), a salesman with a wheelchair-bound wife who disappears suddenly on a rainy night. Clues he pieces together from his voyerism convinces him that she was murdered. The police help only reluctantly, and Kelly actually goes into Burr's apartment at one point, is caught, is threatened, until police show up. Burr in the final scene tries to throw Stewart out the window, is nabbed, Stewart falls, and the very final scene shows him in casts on both legs!
To accurately rate a film you have to compare it not only to what came out during the same era, but also everything since. With that criteria, I don't believe "Rear Window" is one of the best of all time. Still, a pretty good flick.