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Rope
Intellectual arrogance meets cold-blooded violence in Hitchcock’s virtuoso adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play.
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Director
Alfred Hitchcock
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With
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler
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USA 1948. 80min
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Digital
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Certificate
PG
After strangling their classmate for kicks and inviting his family to dine in a room containing his corpse, two young men intellectualise their depravity over cocktails. The theatrical roots of Hitchcock’s chilling chamber piece – from Patrick Hamilton’s play – are brilliantly restricted to a claustrophobic single location. The (appropriately fake) illusion of a continuous long take, suggestive of ‘real’ time, amps up the tension as the drama unfolds.
Ruby McGuigan
The screening of Rope on Wednesday 1 May will be introduced by Bryony Dixon, BFI National Archive Curator.
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