A Classic Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (28 October 2007)

Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchckock's 'Rear Window' is an example of how script, camera-work and characters can be utilised to a maximum. This is a film that has its character stuck in 1 room for 110 minutes. That is a tough job to pull.
Hitchcock keeps an injured James Stewart in his apartment and he slowly senses murder across the block, and thus the spying begins...
No strong language, violence or gore. Nothing. Hitchcock was a master of cinema and Rear Window is one of the many examples of how he can entertain and delight so wonderfully with such basic tools.
The apartment blocks and the courtyard, which are fundamentally the only sets in this film are clearly studio made, but it really doesn't matter. Hitchcock manages to create an atmosphere with his camera closely examining each apartment; different people... different story.
This is old Hollywood at its finest; Rear Window is wickedly entertaining, wildly interesting and at times tense. It is very much the type of film that we do not make any more; Today we are more interesting in brutal violence, sex and drugs.
Rear Window is a classic in every sense of the word and it shall stay as that. It's hard to say Hitchcock's finest, because the man had so many masterpieces it's difficult to say which is best, but a masterpiece nonetheless.
9/10