one of my favorite movies!!

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2005)

I first saw this movie when it was on Turner Classic Movies a few months ago. It has become one of my favorite movies in this short time. My least favorite part of the movie is the romance between Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly's characters. It's hard for me to get past the fact that there was over 20 years' age difference between them in real life, but that's beside the point that this is a great movie. I still rate it a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. (Besides, it's perfectly acceptable in real life for a man to have a wife/girlfriend 20-30 years younger than him). Anyway, the acting is just wonderful!
I like Thelma Ritter's supporting role of Stella; she has some funny lines. I just love the plot, and the other inhabitants of the apartments around Jefferies. The first time I saw the movie, I thought Lisa was going to be killed when she was caught in Thorwald's apartment, while Jeff watched helpless across the courtyard. That would have seemed to me to be a typical plot twist in a Hitchcock movie. I think the scene near the end when Raymond Burr comes over to Jeff's apartment to confront him, and ultimately try to kill him, is just great. I think it's so chilling how Hitchcock had the set lit, so you can only see Thorwald's glasses and eyes; it's just so menacing to me. Every time I watch a Perry Mason rerun on the Hallmark channel now and see Raymond Burr, I think of his role in this movie. Anyway, just a great movie, one of my favorites. I highly recommend buying the DVD.