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Genre | Drama, Mystery & Suspense/Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Contributor | Thelma Ritter, Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Burks, John Michael Hayes, Wendell Corey, Loren L. Ryder, James Stewart, Raymond Burr See more |
Initial release date | 2012-09-04 |
Language | English |
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Rear Window
None of Hitchcock's films has ever given a clearer view of his genius for suspense than Rear Window. When professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife, Jeffries enlists the help of his glamorous socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events… Events that ultimately lead to one of the memorable and gripping endings.
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Directed by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is an edge-of-your-seat classic starring two of Hollywood's most popular stars. When a professional photographer (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects his neighbor of murdering his nagging wife, he enlists his socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to help investigate the suspicious chain of events, leading to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history. Honored in AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies for excellence in film, Rear Window has also been hailed as "one of Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thrillers" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide).
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.66:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.56 ounces
- Item model number : 1123521
- Director : Alfred Hitchcock
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Release date : September 4, 2012
- Actors : James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : Spanish
- Producers : Alfred Hitchcock
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00871C09S
- Writers : John Michael Hayes
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,280 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #168 in Drama DVDs
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Though I’m glad that now I own this movie on physical media, frankly, I’m quite discontented with the condition in which the item arrived.
I ordered a 4k UHD copy of Rear Window sold by Amazon along with another blu-ray, which was sold by a third party seller and shipped by Amazon.
Both items arrived in the same mailer envelope. When I opened it, I saw a black UHD case and a gray plastic bag. I unwrapped the gray bag and I found the other blu-ray that I ordered wrapped in a sheet of bubble wrap.
My question was why was only one of them wrapped like this and not the other but then I immediately remembered that I bought the one that was securely wrapped from a third party seller.
Then, I opened the Rear Window 4k UHD case and I found a crack. When I got a closer look at it and gently touched it, a piece came off. I tried to close the case but it didn't close properly because the piece was missing.
Of course if you put a naked blu-ray case in a brown mailer bag that provides no support for the item inside, by the time it’s delivered to the address, it’s damaged in some way shape or form.
What I don’t understand is why Amazon can't do what a third party seller does, which is to wrap an item in a sheet of bubble wrap. That’s all I’m asking really.
I’m not returning this because at the end of the day, it’s the discs that I wanted, but I think I’m gonna be buying blu-rays from third party sellers from now on. Of course, some of them must be terrible but at least they are held by certain standards Amazon set, which I’m assuming they don’t apply to themselves.
Edit(12/22/23)
So I did a little resarch online a few days ago and I found out that Amazon sending blu-ray cases that are cracked, chipped, scratched or damged in other ways is a pretty common occurance, and it's not the way they ship them that's the most problematic part in this. Apparenly, they sell RETURNED blu-rays as BRAND-NEW. So what they basically do is, when some customers return defective cases, reshrink them with some cheap sheets of shrink wrap and the cases get further damaged because of the heat and pressure in the process. Yetserday, I received another copy(White Chrismas) that had many visible scuffs on the case whose spine was chipped where it meets the bottom. When I opened the case and checked the disc, I saw several tiny scratches on the back. I was naturally apalled by the condition and immediately requested a replacement. And I must mention that the shrink wrap of this item looked like saran wrap.
Amazon, if you read this, please stop doing this type of stuff. You are wasting your customers' time and your own.
Update(03/05/24)
First of all, in early January, I received the replacement for the damaged White Christmas Blu-Ray that I had requested in late December. The new one arrived with a slipcover and its condition was definitely brand new. This was a good sign. At least, Amazon was willing to make it up to a customer who got a faulty item even though they could have prevented that in my case by not sending a returned copy. This prompted me to actually go ahead and return the Rear Window copy with a chipped case since the window for a refund for that item was still open. I had it returned at the end of January days before the last day to return an item bought in the holiday season. Then in late February, I bought a new copy with two other unrelated items. Yes, again from Amazon. Not a third party seller. Talk about not practicing what you preach. I received the new copy today after some delay. I was anxious to open the white and blue Amazon Prime envelope. What if they sent me another returned copy in a chipped case? But actually, the copy they sent me this time turned out to be one of the most pristine looking blu-rays I have ever received from any seller, if not the most. It came with an unscratched slipcover with no wrinkles. The shrink was clearly from the original factory. It was simply BEAUTIFUL. I am glad to make an update here and say I am very satisfied with this new copy. So what is the moral of the story? Don’t hesitate to return it if they sent you a below subpar copy. They will most likely make it right.
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023
Though I’m glad that now I own this movie on physical media, frankly, I’m quite discontented with the condition in which the item arrived.
I ordered a 4k UHD copy of Rear Window sold by Amazon along with another blu-ray, which was sold by a third party seller and shipped by Amazon.
Both items arrived in the same mailer envelope. When I opened it, I saw a black UHD case and a gray plastic bag. I unwrapped the gray bag and I found the other blu-ray that I ordered wrapped in a sheet of bubble wrap.
My question was why was only one of them wrapped like this and not the other but then I immediately remembered that I bought the one that was securely wrapped from a third party seller.
Then, I opened the Rear Window 4k UHD case and I found a crack. When I got a closer look at it and gently touched it, a piece came off. I tried to close the case but it didn't close properly because the piece was missing.
Of course if you put a naked blu-ray case in a brown mailer bag that provides no support for the item inside, by the time it’s delivered to the address, it’s damaged in some way shape or form.
What I don’t understand is why Amazon can't do what a third party seller does, which is to wrap an item in a sheet of bubble wrap. That’s all I’m asking really.
I’m not returning this because at the end of the day, it’s the discs that I wanted, but I think I’m gonna be buying blu-rays from third party sellers from now on. Of course, some of them must be terrible but at least they are held by certain standards Amazon set, which I’m assuming they don’t apply to themselves.
Edit(12/22/23)
So I did a little resarch online a few days ago and I found out that Amazon sending blu-ray cases that are cracked, chipped, scratched or damged in other ways is a pretty common occurance, and it's not the way they ship them that's the most problematic part in this. Apparenly, they sell RETURNED blu-rays as BRAND-NEW. So what they basically do is, when some customers return defective cases, reshrink them with some cheap sheets of shrink wrap and the cases get further damaged because of the heat and pressure in the process. Yetserday, I received another copy(White Chrismas) that had many visible scuffs on the case whose spine was chipped where it meets the bottom. When I opened the case and checked the disc, I saw several tiny scratches on the back. I was naturally apalled by the condition and immediately requested a replacement. And I must mention that the shrink wrap of this item looked like saran wrap.
Amazon, if you read this, please stop doing this type of stuff. You are wasting your customers' time and your own.
Update(03/05/24)
First of all, in early January, I received the replacement for the damaged White Christmas Blu-Ray that I had requested in late December. The new one arrived with a slipcover and its condition was definitely brand new. This was a good sign. At least, Amazon was willing to make it up to a customer who got a faulty item even though they could have prevented that in my case by not sending a returned copy. This prompted me to actually go ahead and return the Rear Window copy with a chipped case since the window for a refund for that item was still open. I had it returned at the end of January days before the last day to return an item bought in the holiday season. Then in late February, I bought a new copy with two other unrelated items. Yes, again from Amazon. Not a third party seller. Talk about not practicing what you preach. I received the new copy today after some delay. I was anxious to open the white and blue Amazon Prime envelope. What if they sent me another returned copy in a chipped case? But actually, the copy they sent me this time turned out to be one of the most pristine looking blu-rays I have ever received from any seller, if not the most. It came with an unscratched slipcover with no wrinkles. The shrink was clearly from the original factory. It was simply BEAUTIFUL. I am glad to make an update here and say I am very satisfied with this new copy. So what is the moral of the story? Don’t hesitate to return it if they sent you a below subpar copy. They will most likely make it right.
𝑾𝒆’𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎𝒔.
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder."
Confined to a wheelchair after an accident, a recuperating news photographer spends his time watching the occupants of neighboring apartments through a telephoto lens and binoculars and becomes convinced that a murder has taken place.
As credited, 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘’s screenplay is inspired by a short story published by Woolrich in 1942. Woolrich’s main protagonist goes by the name of Hall instead of ‘Jeff,’ but the primary conflict in Hayes' take mirrors that of its source material though key differences are present in both thematic exploration and interactive feedback encouraged by audience members. Hall, relative of Jeff, is largely an enigma: Meaning, very little is done to describe him with specifiers so as to maintain some sense of anonymity. The advantage this provides in the broad applicability of Hal’s deviant behavior, but this obviously does little to contextualize the perception of its main character. Jeff, however, is by nature all about ‘the look’: employed as a professional photographer (And, not to mention injured during the acquisition of a risky picture) viewers are primed for a round of observational limbo and inadvertently an enhancement of repertoire given how important the appearance of things becomes to 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘’s character dynamics.
Woolrich, in his publication, was himself inspired by H.G. Wells: Though known for his scientific fiction, he wrote a short story entitled 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑨 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 in August, 1994. In it a man identified by ‘Bailey’ 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 witnesses a murder in the context of a fight that breaks out, and this puts him in danger by virtue of being a liability.
The resolution of conflict in both Wollrich and Wells’ writing are guided by peril and what ultimately turns into self-defense, with the difference being in how much Woolrich explicitly considers the ethical undoing of voyeurism - as to be expected given the capacity to explore innermost thoughts immersively on paper in the absence of visual stimuli.
Haye's’ largest divergence from these source novels is the inclusion of a love interest opposite Jeffries. The lovely Grace Kelly as Lisa is described as perfectly snobbish and stilted owing to a persistent sense of self-preservation. Modeled after Hayes’ own wife (Who, was also a fashion designer) the enmeshment of love acts as a protruding stake, and makes it all the more important that Jefferies’ investigative coven be on par. Secondarily, it creates a wave of conflict that is socially applicable: driven to speculation with enough ambiguity, and the commonality of goals becomes a establishable at will.
Hayes' screenplay, compared to what it is inspired by, prioritizes building a true space for headway and hearsay. This is done, more-or-less, through the distant spectacle Jefferies’ becomes enamored and projects a sense of familiarity on to as indicated by the pseudonyms used to introduce his unsuspecting neighbors that accentuate his recurring observations: observations that very well could be false or two-toned, but aren’t coming too far out of left field given how long Jeff is revealed to have been watching from afar. Anything discovered occurs opposite the drab of Jeff’s apartment (Perhaps to signify the monotony his condition lends to, which justifies voyeurism in this context as an emotional escape) in an aesthetically loud camp that explodes with contrasts, all made possible by lead architect Joseph MacMillan attention to detail and a literal framing of mind.
The influence of Hitchcock’s filmography is reflected on and debated in modern times, but this rarely happens as acknowledgement of his evolution as both a consumer and producer in the cinematic industry. Teleporting approximately twenty-fives years prior to the release of 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘, Hitchcock’s 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒍 (1929) is debuting in theaters; it would be the first film made by Hitchcock that utilized diegetic sound, and made approximately two years after the technology to do so become accessible while he simultaneously worked on other silent projects. Though mostly known for his talkies, Hitchcock remained partial to silent films as reflected in comments made about their story-telling potential, and informed his knowledge regarding composition and information that audience members benefit from being privy to when attempting to encode clarity or suspense.
Why do people spy regardless if it is opportunistic or intentional? 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘, 𝑰𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒅 𝑻𝒐 𝑩𝒆 𝑴𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓, and 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑨 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 are not collectively here to answer such a question save different approaches to information that wrangles viable motives.. Across the board, all of the Jefferies are immobile, with Hitchcock using his injury for deliberately expositional purposes so as to substantiate his brush with deviance in a containable manner. In being absent of principled berating what would otherwise be an unsavory demonstration of spectatorship is cheekingly normalized in 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 as a way to pass time when one has an excess of it to kill, though what constitutes as permission for one to play out surveillance remains a completely different story.
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