A 1954 American thriller about a photographer immobilized by a broken leg who becomes convinced his neighbor across the courtyard has committed murder.
Production
Alfred Hitchcock shot the film almost entirely on a single Paramount soundstage in Hollywood, where a Greenwich Village courtyard with thirty-one functioning apartments was built. James Stewart played the photographer L. B. Jefferies, with Grace Kelly as his girlfriend Lisa Fremont.
Reception
The film earned around $36 million on a $1 million budget and received four Academy Award nominations. It is often grouped with Vertigo and Psycho as the core of Hitchcock’s Paramount-era peak.
Legacy
The film is a touchstone in discussions of cinematic voyeurism and the audience-as-watcher. The set, scaled and lit so windows could function as nested miniature stories, remains a model of single-location design.
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