One Of Hitchcock's Best Films Ever

Through his rear window and the eye of his powerful camera a photo journalist watches a great city tell on itself, expose its cheating ways and Murder!

The movie is about voyeurism and to a lesser degree about love between two apparently different people.

Rear Window is a 1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder. It stars James Stewart as photojournalist L. B. Jefferies, Grace Kelly as his fashion model girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont, and Raymond Burr as the suspected killer, Lars Thorwald.

The film is considered by many filmgoers to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.

L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies is a professional photographer who has been confined to his Greenwich Village apartment after an accident has left him with his leg in a cast, he takes to spying on his neighbors through the rear window. His view of the back of several apartment buildings, their inner courtyard, and the persons dwelling within. Jeff comes to believe a murder has taken place in the building across the courtyard, though his friends, his nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter), and his girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly) initially think his beliefs are imagined, and put them down to his idle behavior.

Thorwald and his wife are a reversal of Jeff and Lisa. Thorwald looks after his invalid wife just as Lisa looks after the invalid Jeff. They were actually a newlywed couple who rarely leave their bedroom. But this develops into trouble for their marriage and Thorwald and his wife begin to argue.The constant nagging of the wife sets the stage for murder.

The character of Lars Thorwald is not seen in close-up and cannot be heard speaking clearly until the climax of the movie. At this point, he appears in Jeff's room. This scene features a sequence shown from Thorwald's point of view as he attempts to proceed towards Jeff, but is repeatedly stopped as Jeff blinds him with the flash from his camera. But Lars does succeed in pushing Jeff out of the window just as the police arrive and arrest Lars for the murder of his wife.

Jeff survives and the film ends with the planning of his future with Liza.

This movie has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.The film received four Academy Award nominations. [1]Best Director for Alfred Hitchcock,[2] Best Screenplay for John Michael Hayes,[3]Best Cinematography, Color for Robert Burks,[4] Best Sound Recording for Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Pictures.