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Rear window (Motion picture)

Alfred Hitchcock's rear window [videorecording] / a Paramount Pictures release ; produced by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Special ed., widescreen version.

Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures, [2008]

2 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history.

Based on a short story "Rear window" by Cornell Woolrich.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.

Restored for Universal by Robert A. Harris.

"Mr. Blanchard's Secret" based on a story by Emily Neff from season 2 of Alfred Hitchcock presents ©1956 by Shamley Production, Inc. Cast: Robert Horton, Meg Mundy, Mary Scott.

Director of photography, Robert Burks ; editor, George Tomasini ; music, Franz Waxman ; art direction, Joseph MacMillian Johnson, Hal Pereira ; costume designer, Edith Head.

James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.

DVD; Dolby digital.

English or French dialogue, English, Spanish, French subtitles; closed captioned.

MPAA rating: PG.

Universal legacy series

Universal legacy series.

Voyeurism -- Drama.

Detective and mystery films.

Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Hayes, John Michael, 1919-2008.

Stewart, James, 1908-1997.

Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982.

Corey, Wendell, 1914-1968.

Ritter, Thelma.

Burr, Raymond, 1917-1993.

Burks, Robert.

Tomasini, George.

Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967.

Johnson, Joseph MacMillan, 1912-1990.

Pereira, Hal.

Head, Edith.

Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968. Rear window.

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Universal City Studios.

Rear window

Disc 1: Rear Window (115 min.) -- Bonus features: Feature commentary with John Fawell (author of Hitchcock's Rear Window: the Well-made Film) -- Production photographs (4 min.) -- Production notes -- Theatrical trailer (3 min) -- Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart (7 min.).

Disc 2: Bonus features: Rear Window ethics : an original documentary ( 55 min.) -- a conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes (13 min.) -- Pure cinema: through the eyes of the master 926 min.) -- Breaking barriers : the sound of Hitchcock ( 17 min.) -- Hitchcock / Truffaut interview excerpts -- Alfred Hitchcock presents "Mr. Blanchard's Secret" / directed by Alfred Hitchcock ( 27 min.).

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