
The Killer(2023)
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.


“It begins with a shriek...it ends with a shot! From beginning to end, nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE!”
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

James Stewart
Rupert Cadell

John Dall
Brandon Shaw

Farley Granger
Phillip Morgan

Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Henry Kentley

Constance Collier
Mrs. Anita Atwater

Douglas Dick
Kenneth Lawrence

Edith Evanson
Mrs. Wilson

Dick Hogan
David Kentley

Joan Chandler
Janet Walker

Alfred Hitchcock
Man Walking in Street (uncredited)
Rope is a thriller, crime, drama film released in 1948 exploring themes of philosophy, banquet, rope, strangle, based on play or musical, murder. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it stars James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger. Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
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