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Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same title by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents .
Joan Chandler (born Joan Cheeseman; August 24, 1923 – May 11, 1979) was an American actress who notably starred in Rope (1948) with James Stewart and Humoresque (1946) with Joan Crawford. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cheeseman, Chandler was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. She took piano lessons from her musician mother and began studying ...
With Rope (1948), Hitchcock experimented with marshalling suspense in a confined environment, as he had done earlier with Lifeboat. The film appears as a very limited number of continuous shots, but it was actually shot in 10 ranging from 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 10 minutes each; a 10-minute length of film was the most that a camera's film magazine could ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1948 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 13 Lead Soldiers: Frank McDonald: Tom Conway, Maria Palmer, Helen Westcott: Mystery 20th Century Fox: 3 Godfathers: John Ford: John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., Pedro Armendáriz, Mae Marsh
John Dall (born John Dall Thompson; May 26, 1920 – January 15, 1971) [1] [Note 1] was an American actor. Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for portraying the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), and the companion of trigger-happy femme fatale Peggy Cummins in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy.
Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. [2] With a career spanning seven decades he received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Saigon (1948) as Captain Mike Perry [8] Casbah (1948) as Carlo; Rope (1948) as Kenneth Lawrence; The Accused (1949) as Bill Perry; Home of the Brave (1949) as Major Robinson; The Red Badge of Courage (1951) as The Lieutenant [9] Something to Live For (1952) as Baker; A Yank in Indo-China (1952) as Clint Marshall; The Iron Mistress (1952) as ...