Buy some binoculars before buying this movie.

Rating: 4/10 (15 January 2020)

I saw this movie in my teens and I dare say I owe it a re-watch but I remember it as a slow and flaccid affair that doesn't do much with its theme of voyeurism.
Instead it is just a straightforward thriller that could have been a neat twilight zone episode or certainly a good 20 minute film but is stretched way too thin with a romantic subplot just shoehorned in.
I can't help but think he could have just ignored everything and been fine. The movie doesn't even explore the nature of his obsession, you just have to role with how he puts himself in peril even though he has a broken leg. I guess he's trying to be a conscientious citizen but he's not going to bring the wife back to life and it isn't worth putting an uxorcidal husband to justice if another person has to get killed in the process.
People call it a classic and i don't like to think I'm unable to appreciate those but this is another one of those Hitchcocks where you get a lot of showy cinematography around a tepid, over-long story.
It also has no atmosphere, the tone being more like a sitcom, making the moments of tenseness seem jarring rather than creepy.