My Favorite Hitchcock Movie

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2015)

This is my favorite Hitchcock movie. I absolutely love the story and the dialogue. Stewart and Kelly are great, but the rest of the cast is fabulous too. Thelma Ritter is absolutely perfect as nurse to Stewart. Her delivery of dialogue and her facial expressions are priceless. One of the most hysterical scenes is when she serves him breakfast as they discuss how to cut up and hide a body.
I love the way this movie was filmed. All the neighbors seen out his rear window are interesting characters even though we only learn bits and pieces of their lives as seen through the eyes of the injured Stewart. The actors who played these roles did a great job considering their screen time was limited. The neighbor who was the murderer was seen more than the others through the window, but even he didn't speak much until the end of the movie so there was a lot of great acting with facial expressions and body language.
I highly recommend this movie. By the way...skip the remake; the original is many times better.