Can a movie that dates from 1954 still be as good today?

Rating: 9/10 (11 December 2000)

*SPOILER*(You should really have seen the movie by now anyway)
My anwser that question is: Yes! I expected to see a movie with long tedious dialogue, but instead Rear Window is a movie filled with suspense and psychological threat. I thought that because the movie is more than 45 years old, there would be a real timebarier, but unlike "The Birds" in which I sometimes found the dialogues very tedious, this movie's dialogue is pretty fast-paced even by nowadays standards. The really interesting thing about the movie is the psychological aspect. At first the main character sees certain suspicious things and he(and with him the viewing audience) is convinced that the salesman has killed his wife. Then the detective negates almost all the evidence and the viewer is (almost) convinced that it's just the main character who WANTS to see a murder and therefore sees one. But in the end guess who's right... What also appealed to me is that the main character's girlfriend and his housekeeper area at first disgusted by him spying on the neighbours. But later on it is them who want to go look what's burried in the garden. It probably shows that we all have voyeuristic sides. Conclusion: A very good movie, which will always be up to date, because of the suspense that only Alfred Hitchcock could create.