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Title

  • Rear window

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.

Names

  • Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film direction, film production, cast
  • Hayes, John Michael, 1919-2008, screenwriter
  • Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967, music
  • Head, Edith, production designer
  • Stewart, James, 1908-1997, cast
  • Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982, cast
  • Corey, Wendell, 1914-1968, cast
  • Ritter, Thelma, cast
  • Burr, Raymond, 1917-1993, cast
  • Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968
  • MCA Home Video (Firm)
  • Paramount Pictures Corporation
  • LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Paramount Pictures Corp., 1954 ; United States : [MCA Home Video, 1984?]

Headings

  • -  Murder--Drama

Genre

  • Melodrama
  • Mysteries
  • Adaptations
  • Features
  • Videodiscs

Notes

  • -  LP3992 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Patron, Inc.; 1Sep54; LP3992.
  • -  Photography, Robert Burks ; music, Franz Waxman ; editor, George Tomasini ; costumes, Edith Head.
  • -  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).
  • -  LC videodisc is a reissue; reissue date is copyright date on videodisc jacket.
  • -  Summary taken from M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card, PREMARC LCCN Fi54-1019.
  • -  Based on the short story of the same title by Cornell Woolrich (pseud.).
  • -  On videodisc jacket: MCA Home Video 40081.
  • -  Sources used: M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card, PREMARC LCCN Fi54-1019; Ross & Nash's The motion picture guide, 1927-1983, p. 2552-2553; videodisc jacket.
  • -  Received: 9/14/94; viewing copy; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.
  • -  Received: 10/1/1982 from LC video lab; viewing copy; preservation; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Received: 2/19/1956; arch pos; copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Not viewed.
  • -  Film (35mm) was originally assigned ref print numbers, FGA 9154-9165, upon initial receipt from Copyright Office 2/19/1956--changed later due to M/B/RS preservation goal(s).

Medium

  • 1 videodisc of 1 (laser) (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in. videodisc.
  • 2 videocassettes of 2 (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. viewing copy.
  • 12 reels of 12 (ca. 10170 ft.) : sd., col. ; 35 mm. archival pos.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DAA 2295 (viewing copy)
  • VBB 1678-1679 (viewing copy)
  • CQA 0825-0830 (arch pos)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 95510039

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Hitchcock, Alfred, Film Direction, Film Production, Cast, John Michael Hayes, Franz Waxman, James Stewart, Princess Of Monaco Grace, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, et al. Rear Window. produceds by Head, Edithuction Designer [United States: Paramount Pictures Corp., ; United States: MCA Home Video, 1984?, 1984] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/95510039/.

APA citation style:

Hitchcock, A., Hayes, J. M., Waxman, F., Stewart, J., Grace, P. O. M., Corey, W. [...] Copyright Collection. (1984) Rear Window. Head, E. D., prod [United States: Paramount Pictures Corp., ; United States: MCA Home Video, 1984?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/95510039/.

MLA citation style:

Hitchcock, Alfred, Film Direction, Film Production, Cast, et al. Rear Window. prod by Head, Edithuction Designer [United States: Paramount Pictures Corp., ; United States: MCA Home Video, 1984?, 1984] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/95510039/>.