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Rope (1948)
aka Alfred Hitchcock's Rope · 绳索 · Ο Βρόχος · 올가미 · Вяроўка
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.
🏳️🌈 Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant single-set thriller masterfully centers its engine on two wealthy young men, Brandon and Phillip, whose highly intimate domestic layout and shared crime function as thick gay male subtext.
Cast
James Stewart James Stewart Rupert Cadell
John Dall John Dall Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger Farley Granger Phillip Morgan
Cedric Hardwicke Cedric Hardwicke Mr. Henry Kentley
Constance Collier Constance Collier Mrs. Anita Atwater
Douglas Dick Douglas Dick Kenneth Lawrence
Edith Evanson Edith Evanson Mrs. Wilson
Dick Hogan Dick Hogan David Kentley
Joan Chandler Joan Chandler Janet Walker
Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Man Walking in Street (uncredited)
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