Rope [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; Transatlantic Pictures' production ; screenplay by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1948. Adapted by Hume Cronyn from the play by Patrick Hamilton. Special features: featurette: Rope unleashed; production photographs; theatrical trailer; production notes.
Summary:
Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder," their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
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