
Vertigo(1958)
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.


“It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.”
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

James Stewart
L.B. Jefferies

Grace Kelly
Lisa Fremont

Wendell Corey
Thomas Doyle

Thelma Ritter
Stella

Raymond Burr
Lars Thorwald

Judith Evelyn
Miss Lonelyhearts

Ross Bagdasarian
Songwriter

Georgine Darcy
Miss Torso

Sara Berner
Woman on Fire Escape

Frank Cady
Man on Fire Escape
Rear Window is a thriller, mystery film released in 1954 exploring themes of nurse, isolation, photographer, suspicion of murder, wheelchair, girlfriend. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey. A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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