Rope
PG · 1948 ‧ Thriller/Crime ‧ 1h 20m
Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan (Farley Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall) strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical exercise. Hiding the body in a chest upon which...
Release date: September 25, 1948 (USA)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Story by: Patrick Hamilton and Hume Cronyn
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, and more
Adapted from: Rope
Box office: $2.2 million (rentals) or $2,748,000
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This 1948 Hitchcock film is mostly noted for its technical achievements. Hitchcock filmed this story, about two well-to-do rich kids who decide to commit a ...