Rope is the story of two young men that kill a prep-school friend with a rope as the weapon.
They do it just for the thrill and challenge themselves by inviting friends and family to their apartment afterward. They hid the victim s body in an old table chest and serve dinner later on his very grave trying to get a cheap thrill out of the experience. These two men aren t cold-blooded killers but consider themselves as intellectually superior beings that have the right to kill those who are not. Rope is very loosely based on the real-life murder committed by University of Chicago students Leopold and Loeb. Rope was released in 1948 and was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.