Stewart the peeping tom

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2000)

"Rear Window" is one of Alfred Hitchkock's best films, period.
However, in order to appreciate this film, you have to
understand on what the situation is all about. Unlike "Psycho"
and "The Birds", "Rear Window" is strictly plot-wise. The plot
is basically what the main element is supposed to be!
Jimmy Stewart is perfect as always as Jeff, a news photographer
with a broken leg who amuses himself by watching his neighbors
in his apartment building through their windows by looking
through a camera. While doing so, Jeff sees that his big
neighbor Thorwald (a pre-"Perry Mason" Raymond Burr) had killed
his wife, and only he knows the secret. Greatly-executed scenes
of suspence follow this thri