Awesome Hitchcock Classic

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2000)

I could go on about this film for ever and ever!
Having never seen it before, I had taken the opportunity to buy the restored film on video [which they have done a great job with BTW] and have just been blown away.
Jimmy Stewart is fantastic as the injured photographer with only his rear window to entertain him all day, as if he were watching the people out the back on Television.
The newly weds, the couple sleeping on the balcony, Miss Torso, Miss Lonely Hearts, The Composer, and, of course, Mr Thorwald [Raymond Burr] keep this film going and going and going.
And that's before you even mention Grace Kelly, whose beauty is all the more in this restored copy of the classic.
There are so many levels to this story, the relationship between Stewart and Kelly which Stewart seems to be using his Rear Window to detract him from, the police officer investigating Thorwald, Stewart's home help Stella [Thelma Ritter] who provides much of the comedy in this story.
Hitchcock was an absolute genius, and this was his masterpiece.