Rope [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents [a] Transatlantic Pictures production ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by Arthur Laurents.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: 28311 | Universal Studios Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, Spanish, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece | Alfred Hitchcock collectionPublication details: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006]Edition: Full screen presentationDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

1417058900
9781417058907

Other title:

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope

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DDC classification:

791.437/2 22

LOC classification:

PN1997 .R67 2006

Production credits:

Directors of photography, Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall ; film editor, William H. Ziegler ; musical director, Leo F. Forbstein ; art director, Perry Ferguson ; set decorators, Emile Kuri, Howard Bristol.

Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, Dick Hogan.Summary: Two friends strangle a college classmate and then proceed to invite his family and friends to dinner after they stuff the body inside a trunk to be used for the dining table. One of the guests, their teacher, suspects foul play and returns later to discover not only the body, but also how his own academic theories had been twisted to provide the motivation for the grotesque murder. Based on the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder, Hitchcock's study of total mise-en-scene construction was shot entirely on a single sound stage.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD	Main Library DVD	DVD R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		31744003670870

DVD; dual layer; Dolby digital 2.0 mono; Aspect ratio 1.33:1 (full frame).

In English, with dubbed Spanish and dubbed French language tracks; optional subtitles in English.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, Dick Hogan.

Directors of photography, Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall ; film editor, William H. Ziegler ; musical director, Leo F. Forbstein ; art director, Perry Ferguson ; set decorators, Emile Kuri, Howard Bristol.

Adapted by Hume Cronym from the play by Patrick Hamilton.

Digitally remastered.

Videodisc release of the 1948 film.

Two friends strangle a college classmate and then proceed to invite his family and friends to dinner after they stuff the body inside a trunk to be used for the dining table. One of the guests, their teacher, suspects foul play and returns later to discover not only the body, but also how his own academic theories had been twisted to provide the motivation for the grotesque murder. Based on the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder, Hitchcock's study of total mise-en-scene construction was shot entirely on a single sound stage.

MPAA rating: PG.

Special features: Rope unleashed ; production photographs ; theatrical trailer ; production notes.

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