Rope
It begins with a shriek...it ends with a shot! From beginning to end, nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE!
Two men murder a man in cold blood for the thrill and invite his parents over for a celebration to prove they have committed the perfect crime, but they also have to deal with their former schoolmaster, who becomes suspicious.
- Year: 1948
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Studio: Transatlantic Pictures
- Keyword: philosophy, banquet, footlocker, rope, strangle, based on play or musical, gay interest, murder, technicolor, dinner party, academia, one location, gay theme, homosexual subtext, gay killer, nietzsche, restricted setting, the perfect murder, the perfect crime, playing god, leopold and loeb
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast: John Dall, Farley Granger, James Stewart, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson