75th Anniversary!

Hitchcock’s first color film is also one of his most adventurous. Hitch restricted himself to locating the entire film in one set for this thinking-man’s murder mystery, with Jimmy Stewart as a college professor who tries to guess the fate of a missing student.

“Rope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary.” – Vincent Canby, New York Times