Rear Window is a 1954 American thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart as a photographer confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg who becomes convinced, from observing his neighbors through his apartment window, that one of them has murdered his wife, and Grace Kelly as his girlfriend who is drawn into investigating. The film is staged almost entirely from within the photographer's apartment, building suspense through what he can and cannot see and hear of the courtyard outside, a formally restrictive setup Hitchcock used to sustain tension without conventional action. Rear Window is widely regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films and a landmark of suspense filmmaking built around a single confined point of view.
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Is Rear Window part of the National Film Registry?
Yes. The Library of Congress added the 1954 film to the National Film Registry in 1997.
Yes. The Library of Congress lists Rear Window, released in 1954, among the films selected for the National Film Registry, and its listing gives 1997 as the year the film was added. The Registry is the Library of Congress list of films chosen for preservation as culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
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Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".
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Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".
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Rear Window is a 1954 American thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart as a photographer confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg who becomes convinced, from observing his neighbors through his apartment window, that one of them has murdered his wife, and Grace Kelly as his girlfriend who is drawn into investigating.
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Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr.
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Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".
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Rear Window 1954 1997
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