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The Resource Rear window, a Paramount release ; Patron ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Rear window, a Paramount release ; Patron ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Contributor
Summary
A suspense melodrama. Confined to a wheel chair with a broken leg, a news photographer becomes suspicious of murder as he passes the time by surreptitiously watching several neighbors from the rear window of his Greenwich Village apartment
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 videodisc (115 min.)
Note
  • Originally issued as a motion picture in 1954
  • Based on the short story of the same title by Cornell Woolrich
  • Special features include: Rear windo ethics: an original documentary ; featurette: a conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes ; production photographs ; production notes ; re-lease trailer, narrated by James Stewart ; theatrical trailer ; scene selections
Instance
Label
Rear window
Title
Rear window
Statement of responsibility
a Paramount release ; Patron ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Title variation
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Summary
A suspense melodrama. Confined to a wheel chair with a broken leg, a news photographer becomes suspicious of murder as he passes the time by surreptitiously watching several neighbors from the rear window of his Greenwich Village apartment
Member of
Cataloging source
ZCU
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Photography, Robert Burks ; music, Franz Waxman ; editor, George Tomasini ; costumes, Edith Head
Language note
In English or French with optional English or Spanish subtitle, closed-captioned
PerformerNote
James Stewart (L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries), Grace Kelly (Lisa Carol Fremont), Wendell Corey (Det. Thomas Doyle), Thelma Ritter (Stella), Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald), Alfred Hitchcock (Butler in songwriter's apartment)
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1899-1980
  • 1919-2008
  • 1908-1997
  • 1929-1982
  • 1914-1968
  • 1917-1993
  • 1906-1967
  • 1903-1968
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • Hayes, John Michael
  • Stewart, James
  • Grace
  • Corey, Wendell
  • Ritter, Thelma
  • Burr, Raymond
  • Waxman, Franz
  • Woolrich, Cornell
  • Paramount Pictures Corporation
  • Patron, Inc
  • Universal Pictures (Firm)
  • Universal City Studios
  • Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
Runtime
115
Series statement
Alfred Hitchcock, the masterpiece collection
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Voyeurism
  • Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc
  • Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)
Technique
live action
Label
Rear window, a Paramount release ; Patron ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Originally issued as a motion picture in 1954
  • Based on the short story of the same title by Cornell Woolrich
  • Special features include: Rear windo ethics: an original documentary ; featurette: a conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes ; production photographs ; production notes ; re-lease trailer, narrated by James Stewart ; theatrical trailer ; scene selections
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
62252731
Dimensions
4 3/4 in
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 videodisc (115 min.)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Note
Bowdoin stacks copy: NO Public Performance Rights purchased; home or classroom use ONLY
Other physical details
sound, color
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System details
DVD format
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Rear window, a Paramount release ; Patron ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Publication
Note
  • Originally issued as a motion picture in 1954
  • Based on the short story of the same title by Cornell Woolrich
  • Special features include: Rear windo ethics: an original documentary ; featurette: a conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes ; production photographs ; production notes ; re-lease trailer, narrated by James Stewart ; theatrical trailer ; scene selections
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
62252731
Dimensions
4 3/4 in
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 videodisc (115 min.)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Note
Bowdoin stacks copy: NO Public Performance Rights purchased; home or classroom use ONLY
Other physical details
sound, color
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System details
DVD format
Video recording format
DVD

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