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Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2017)

***SPOILERS*** What many consider "The Masters" Alfred Hitchcock's best work "Rear Window" breaks a lot of taboos in Hollywood film making by making a pervert or peeping Tom or Jeff in this case, a hero in his snooping into other peoples, his neighbors, private lives. Action photographer LBJ "Jeff" Jefferies, James Stewart, is laid up with a broken leg in his Greenwich Village apartment that he got photographing the Indianapolis 500 with nothing at all to do but spy on his neighbors while being looked after by his housemaid and personal masseuse Stella, Thelma Ritter. Just passing the day away Jeff gets interested in his next door neighbor's actions the bear like and somehow secretive Lars Thorward, Raymond Burr, who's always seen, by Jeff, arguing and fighting with his wife Emma, Irene Winston.
In steps Jeff's high class girlfriend who's so uppity up and rich, or well heeled, that she never wears the same $1,200.00 dress-That's about $15,000.00 in 2017 dollars- twice Lisa Carol Fremont the Third played by future real live princess Grace Kelly. Lisa want's Jeff to quit his job as an action photographer and work for the high class fashion magazine that she models for in that the work is a lot safer and the salary is at least five times as much. Jeff becoming obsessed with what's Thorward's strange and bizarre behavior soon finds himself, as well as both Stella & Lisa, in far more danger then he was on the race track or in the war zones in the middle east or Indochina.
***SPOILERS*** It soon becomes apparent that Thorward is up to no good and it's the disappearance of his wife Emma that has Jeff believe that she didn't go on a trip to the country as Thorward tells his building superintendent but was murdered by him. Who cut Emma up into little pieces and dumped them into the East River. With Thorward smelling something rotten in Jeff & Lisa interest into what he doing behind closed doors, after he caught Lisa red handed in his apartment, that he heads for Jeff's apartment to confront Jeff about what he's got on him and how much money he wasn't from him in that he doesn't have that much, about $2.75 in change and three subway tokens, to begin with to pay him off to shut up from telling the police. Tense action with a mad as a bull, and looking like one, Thorward breaking into the wheelchair bound and helpless Jeff's apartment who's only way of keeping the mad man at bay is blinding with the bulbs from his flash camera. In the end Jeff end up with two not one broken legs but has justice done with Thorward arrested for murdering his wife but also got Lisa to see things his way. That's in moving in with him and discarding her high class lifestyle that she's got so used to living.