A Hitchcock masterpiece where a man with a broken leg for 6 weeks, a pair of binoculars and a rear window add up to trouble.

Rating: 6/10 (2 February 2002)

A man witnesses what he believes is a murder in an apartment building behind his. The romance makes for an interesting subplot also showing up its era. Grace Kelly plays a society sweetheart who has fallen for a photographer. She wants to marry and he doesn't. She imagines him as a fashion photographer in a suit and married to her. James Stewart plays the 'louse' who declares she could never follow him through the middle east photographing on dangerous assignments and he could never fit into her ideal. Far from wanting to break-up he asks her to keep things 'status quo'. There's an interesting scene between his police detective friend and her overnight bag. But this is the movies - he has to marry her!