It's In the Garden

Rating: 9/10 (5 October 2001)

Jimmy Stewart does what many would do. Because of a badly broken leg and probably because he's not a fan of television in the 1950's, he takes his photographic equipment and scans the scenery. It so happens that the city has million stories and he becomes involved in about a dozen of them, including Raymond Burr, who has probably murdered his wife. Enter Grace Kelly, the loyal girlfriend, and things begin to role. Being a moral man except for his voyeurism, he eventually discovers something that pushes him into action. Once he combated boredom; now he knows a terrible secret, but he must get his facts in order. He pushes the envelope so many times, putting his accomplice in danger, but he must know soon or he will get himself killed.	The suspense is built from the opening credits to the concluding scenes. As Stewart assembles his evidence and Burr begins to suspect something, it puts us on the edges of our seats. Stewart and Kelly are so vulnerable, he with his disability, she with the inability to leave the cul de sac she has entered. Once the criminal suspects, he has no choice; he is desperate, and then we have a climax that is worthy of the very best of Hitchcock. It is exciting and satisfying, no stones left unturned, literally. See this if you never have!