A Clever Thriller

Rating: 9/10 (3 August 2012)

Hitchcock brings back one of his favorite stars back for another thrill ride, but you gotta watch it from your rear window. That happens to be the title of this film. James Stewart stars as L.B. Jeffries, a photographer on leave with a broken leg from an assignment. Jeffries has grown bored in his small apartment and soon starts to watch his neighbors through a photographic lens. One day he notices that the wife of one of his neighbors, Thorwald (Raymond Burr of 'Perry Mason', is missing. With the aid of his lovely girlfriend, Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), and his caretaker, Stella (Thelma Ritter), Jeffries sets out to discover Mrs. Thorwald's fate. The most fascinating aspects of the film is that all the camera shots are from the point of view of Stewart as he is trapped in the apartment. A true creative film, there is no moment of disappointment in the movie.