Rope
Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.
Plot
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from prep school, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise: they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
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| author | Arthur Laurents Ben Hecht Hume Cronyn Patrick Hamilton |
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| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| editor | William H. Ziegler |
| genre | crime drama thriller |
| keywords | aesthete aestheticism antique wooden chest cassone college-preparatory school dinner party even hide horrify manhattan nietzsche penthouse apartment perfect crime perfect murder philosophy of friedrich nietzsche prep school question stammer superman übermensch wooden chest |
| musicBy | David Buttolph |
| producer | Alfred Hitchcock Sidney Bernstein Uncredited: |
| productionCompany | Transatlantic Pictures |
| publisher | Associated Artists Productions Universal Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures Wiley |
| theme | films à clef lgbt-related psychological thriller |