The fact that Hitchcock was able to make a full length movie set in just one single location and still have it THIS visually pleasing is amazing (same with ROPE that was originally a stage play). They could have easily just have had the window facing a single brick wall on the other side but he decided to give the courtyard a personality of itself.

Rear window....my all time favourite Hitchcock movie

The music is just preparing us to relax our guard reinforced when the curtains rise. Just so we would comply with the voyeurism. Mans a genius

In the first minute not a single word is said, and we know everything we need to know. A perfect example of "show, don't tell".

I saw this movie as a kid and ever since I’ve been obsessed with it, this is my favorite Hitchcock film and one of the best movies ever made.

The first time I saw this movie was in college in in my Contemporary Literature class. Not gonna lie, I thought it was going to be boring. Needless to say, it’s one of my favorite movies! I gotta watch some more like this.

I just love how the beginning sets the stage for the whole movie, and Jimmy Stewart's character in particular. We know he's bedridden because of an accident, we know he's bored out of his mind, we know he's a photographer, we know of his girlfriend, we know of his voyeuristic traits (possibly a combination of his job and boredom?) without any need for exposition. Just the camera showing us around his apartment and the windows on the courtyard. Also we have some foreshadowing of the event around which the plot will revolve. That, my friends, is visual storytelling done right.

Viewing the opening scene of this Hitchcock classic "Rear Window" keeps the viewer spellbound. So just imagine seeing the entire movie. James Stewart, the protagonist, is helpless in a wheelchair with his leg in a cast from the accident he recently suffered. Not wanting to mope about his immobility, he instead begins to enjoy his view across a row of houses from his rear window. One view shows a lovely curvy blonde girl making breakfast while simultaneously practicing her daily calisthenics. Even though a call comes in for Mr. Stewart, his eyes stay riveted on the pretty lass with a wide grin creasing his face now and then. A white-haired man is also shown checking on his wife, who is in bed with a head-ache. Next he is shown tending to his garden and watering the plants. This white haired man is none other than Raymond Burr, our very own Perry Mason.

I really like how you can hear the hustle and bustle of a city through Jefferies' apartment and to further note, that he's close to the river (fog horns in the distance). Sounds are just as important as visuals.

Love this picture, and will until I'm gone.

There's a parody episode of The Simpsons based on this movie. The family gets an above ground pool and Bart decides to jump from his treehouse into it but loses his balance while on the branch. The impact of the fall caused his leg to break and has led him to have a cast, be in a wheelchair and be bored while his bone heals. Now since he can't swim, his summer is ruined, and he has to find some other way to pass the time and amuse himself. He was given a telescope and looks in it. He looks over at Ned Flanders' house and thinks he sees a murder. He freaks out, goes to investigate and one thing leads to another and so on. Classic satire from that show is always epic!

Salute to Alfred Hitchcock!

Audiences of the time would recognize that Jimmy Stewart supposedly works for LIFE, which was the biggest-circulation photo news magazine in the USA then. The distinctive cover design with the red bar across the bottom of the cover is obviously copied at 1:12, at the end of the camera panning over a selection of dramatic photos that he's supposedly taken. This sequence establishes what his job is without it having to be explained in words, although the phone call that follows does that as well.

2:19 I feel like if I had a neighbour that did this it would really boost morale.

Can you imagine how expensive that set was? I mean its an entire courtyard all closed in by tall buildings filled with apartments, and it even shows the street behind the one building. I mean the construction and then the set decoration? And no CGI. Only someone as big as Hitchcock at that time could have commanded it.

This is what I call a masterpiece

That scratching was very ASMR!

Hitchcock was awesome and would love to have a collection of his movies .

Thank you for the upload. I don’t even mind the commercial breaks. It’s like late night TV. Anyway, you saved my life today.

This is one of my fav movies and is, imo the best movie performance by James Stewart.

RIP JAMES STEWART AND ALFRED HİTCHCOCK...

This was always my favorite Hitchcock.

Love this picture, and will until I too am gone.

Masterclass in directing,today this scene or whole film would be a succession of flashbacks and tedious exposition,in 6 min,with just one guy in a room,we got who this man was,what happened to him,his surrounding and for how long he's gonna remain in this condition.

Great neighborhood

Love this movie. 'North by Northwest' and 'Notorious' . Hitchcock is the suspense master IMHO.

Wonderful, just wonderful

I love 1950s

There’s probably not a lot of directors that would have had the idea to shoot the film in such a way. For a film to hold up 70 years after it was shot marks him as a master filmmaker that has only been equaled few times.

Masterpiece for all times!

I love this film

I love this film!

For some reason, this movie, as well as "Vertigo" and "Rope" were not re-released to theaters until the 1980's. In any case, I think this was the best of the three.

masterpiece film 👌

Perfecto! 🎉

Could this be the best film ever made.

Hitchcock was ahead of his time. By him sitting there watching thru people windows and seeing their business. It's like social media. And the old lady who's trying to bothering Raymond Burr's character is acting like a Karen. 🤭

When NYC was great.

The pianist's apartment looks just like the outside of Monica Geller's apartment in Friends. It's decades apart, but is it possible it's the same set piece? Or at least modeled after this one?

W tych scenach podglądanie innych jest coś mistycznego. W naszej rzeczywistości jest ukryty inny wymiar który tutaj Hitchcockowi udało się uchwycić na taśmie filmowej. To metafizyka większą niż chodzenie na puste msze.

My favorite movie

I always wondered why his neighbors couldn’t / didn’t see as much of his activities as he apparently did of them. Did they not notice him at all staring at and studying each of them?He had backlights illuminating him as much as they did. Yet they never seemed to glance out their windows across the courtyard at him.

3:02 - Dave Seville from Alvin and the Chipmunks

shots are missing from this opening scene.

Shades were sold out when the film was made😊

The question "do you really think it'll (American English?) work has yet to my knowledge collected enough informational statistical components to 4-mulate and integrate a valid reply as an answer to determine if a scholarship proposal application to Cornell (pending college~university is valid).

NYC ❤️

.. SMiTteN 💯... Lol.. that itch , thO'.. Its healing.. 😂

While i do love rear window it's in my top 15 favorite all time but vertigo is my favorite from hitchcock plus vertigo is in my top 10

Green Day. Rear Window. Good Year. Quite the scene there, bruv.

Yes sir it has to be that way 😉😂😉😁😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉

Dated. Now with Air Conditioning this couldn't be made. Sad.

Imagine being 1 of the 18 people that doesn't like this. 🤔

Can I have the full movie please?

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Why do i feel Hitchcock was such a master of voyeurism as he was a voyeur himself.... He really seemed to understand peoples drives and motivations..

The pink bikini was fun/comfy.

At 2:24 did he say Kashmir or cashmere? Would like to know the reference as I am from Kashmir.

Funny that James Stewart and the cop were supposed to be in the war for 3 years together!

Brian Depalma shamelessly aped the character of the young dancing woman and sexed the character up considerably in his 1984 film "Body Double", which, like " Rear Window ", also features voyeurism in its plot.

☄️💖💎💓💎💖☄️

I can watch this movie and The Birds anytime they’re on TV. Actually most any Hitchcock, except Marnie. Of the oldies, Strangers on a train and Shadow of a doubt are faves. BTW where is Hitch in this piece? I thought he walked by of the back street near the beginning of the film...

OK. So is it worth watching the rest of this movie?

1:46 WTF?

What is the middle aged woman wearing attached to her tank top - it looks like an Iphone...?

Dang, I'd be watching that blonde too

This is just like Shia labeouff in Disturbia, except he wasn’t schizophrenic… or was he?

Why do these people open their windows and do things for everyone to see ?

why he's keeping this creepy photograph?

When men were men. I envy our forefathers generation.

The man who murdered his wife played by Grace Kelly. Alfred Hitchcocks greatest mistake in his film career. ☺

I do not understand why this is a classic. Don't get me wrong, the set design, mood, lighting etc is great. But the actual pacing/story is so dull.

Great fan of Hitchcock but this is very far from reality . You just won't get this clear view into so many flats or have all these scenarios develop in front of your eyes .

This movie was on two times last week, watched it both times. Still don’t care for it.