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Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder. Originally released by Paramount Pictures , the film stars James Stewart , Grace Kelly , Wendell Corey , Thelma Ritter , and Raymond Burr .
On August 4, 1954, Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Rear Window, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, was unveiled in New York at the Rivoli Theatre. The Paramount feature went on to nab four ...
January 6 – Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (d. 2008) January 6 - John Sparkes, Welsh actor and comedian; January 19 - Katey Sagal, American actress and singer-songwriter; January 20 - Ken Page, American actor and cabaret singer (d. 2024) January 25 - Sean Lawlor, Irish character actor and playwright (d. 2009)
Other film roles were as James Stewart's nurse in Rear Window (1954) and as Doris Day's housekeeper, Alma, in Pillow Talk (1959). Although best known for comedy roles, she played the occasional dramatic role, most notably in With a Song in My Heart (1952), Pickup on South Street (1953), Titanic (1953), The Misfits (1961), and Birdman of ...
A mystery film is a genre of film revolving around the solution to a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of a protagonist to solve the mystery by means of clues, investigation, and deduction. This is a list of mystery films by decade.
Rear Window is a 1998 American made-for-television crime-drama thriller film directed by Jeff Bleckner.The teleplay by Larry Gross and Eric Overmyer is an updated adaptation of the classic 1954 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock which was based on the short story It Had to Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich.
Director Alfred Hitchcock was at the peak of his craft, with films such as Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), and North by Northwest (1959), with James Stewart and Grace Kelly starring in three each.
Bacon's final film Shield for Murder: Edmond O'Brien: Edmond O'Brien, Marla English, John Agar: Film noir: United Artists: Siege at Red River: Rudolph Mate: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone: Western: 20th Century Fox: Sign of the Pagan: Douglas Sirk: Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Rita Gam: Adventure: Universal: Silent Raiders: Richard Bartlett