Premise: Rope is a 1948 American film noir psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock , based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton , and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents . It is the second of Hitchcock 's `` limited setting '' films , the first being Lifeboat . Transatlantic Pictures . The first two Transatlantic films , Hitchcock 's Rope ( 1948 ) and Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) , both released in the US by Warner Bros. , had poor box office returns .
Hypothesis: Rope is a classified document.
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