Rope [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents [a] Transatlantic Pictures production ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Arthur Laurents.
"28311." Title from container. James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler. Adapted by Hume Cronym from the play by Patrick Hamilton. Aspect ratio 1.33:1. Digitally remastered. Dolby digital 2.0 mono. Special features: Rope unleashed ; production photographs ; theatrical trailer ; production notes.
Summary:
Two friends strangle a college classmate and then proceed to invite his family and friends to dinner after they stuff the body inside a trunk to be used for the dining table. One of the guests, their teacher, suspects foul play and returns later to discover not only the body, but also how his own academic theories had been twisted to provide the motivation for the grotesque murder. Based on the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder, Hitchcock's study of total mise-en-scene construction was shot entirely on a single sound stage.
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