Take a peek... You won't be able to look off.

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2007)

*Rear SPOILERS*
Temporarily incapacitated fotoreporter L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries (James Stewart) has nothing to do for the whole day except watch through his rear window what's happening in the apartments around the court; so he sees a struggling composer (Ross Bagdasarian), a desirable - and desired - dancer, Miss Torso (Georgine Darcy), two newlyweds (Rand Harper and Havis Davenport), a lonesome woman whom he nicknames 'Miss Lonely Hearts' (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged couple (Sara Berner & Frank Cady) with a dog, a sculptress (Jesslyn Fax) and the Thorwalds, Lars (Raymond Burr), a jewelry salesman and his bickering, invalid wife Anna (Irene Winston).
His monotony is broken only by the visits of insurance nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) and of his beautiful girlfriend, whose name is, from top to bottom, Lisa Carol Freemont (Grace Kelly), to whose proposal of marriage he is determined to resist, and by the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Thorwald.
While all the investigations made by friend Thomas J. Doyle (Wendell Corey) seem to point to Anna having left, Jeff suspects otherwise... especially because of the arrays of knives and ropes that Mr. Thorwald seems to have recently acquired, and as time goes on, he convinces also Stella and Lisa.
But danger looms...
'Rear Window' is practically Hitchcock's film-testament; it seems to contain a lot of his main themes, such as voyeurism, incompatibility between male and female outlooks, and an ordinary man caught up in an extraordinary situation, and also manages to blend in a romantic comedy and a taut thriller.
The flawless acting, the perfectly timed script and the magnificent set, among others, make of 'Rear Window' a timeless classic, so good it has been remade twice; once in 1998, with Christopher Reeve and Daryl Hannah, and the second time recently as 'Disturbia' (or better, 'Rear Window 2') with Shia LaBoeuf.
Rear Window (1954): 10/10.