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Rating: 8/10 (17 January 2001)

I have just seen the restored version of `Rear Window' and what a wonderful movie it is. Hitchcock gives a clinic in tight, punchy story telling but I'm afraid his misogyny shows as usual.
Was no one else as offended as I was by the implication, actually most explicit in the first half, that a woman isn't complete without a husband? Here is Grace Kelly, looking absolutely gorgeous and a fabulously successfully fashion model demeaning herself even to the point of undergoing a `fate worse than death' (as it was known in the fifties) in order to marry grumpy, middle-aged photographer James Stewart. Through other characters, especially the honeymooners, it is suggested that marriage is a trap for a man. How did they get away with it?
But presuming that no-one is going to fall for this propaganda from male-dominated Hollywood these days `Rear Window' is well worthy of it's All-time No 12 rating from the IMDB