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REAR WINDOW opens in New York. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Written by John Michael Hayes, from Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had To Be Murder. Bored wheelchair bound photographer James Stewart, whilst casually observing (via a pair of binoculars) the comings and goings of his apartment's neighbours in the courtyard below, witnesses what he believes to be a murder. While neither his girlfriend, played by Grace Kelly, nor his cop friend, Wendell Corey, are prepared to take his suspicions seriously, the murderer, played by Raymond Burr, is not so dismisssive of his only witness. Widely considered to be one of Hitchcock's best.
