Review – Rear Window

By now I’m guessing everyone knows the story here: a photographer who’s stuck in his apartment thanks to a broken leg sees one of his neighbors commit a murder. It’s been imitated and parodied just about everywhere from horror movies to The Simpsons. The thing that I notice every time I see it is just how stiff and theatrical it is. Hitchcock deliberately gives the picture a stage performance feel, right down to the curtain at the end. Mildly amusing