(1954, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
In Short: Fashion consultant Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) helps her photographer boyfriend L. B. Jefferies (James Stewart) and his nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) investigate the possibility that a murder was committed across the way, to which bored, window-watching, temporarily wheelchair-bound Jeff might have been a witness. I'm always writing about Big Lessons in this section. There's no big lesson. It's a murder mystery. The lesson, I suppose, is that sometimes you ought to be a little too involved in everyone else's business because who knows, you might end up being able to solve a mystery. But they couldn't save the dog, so what's the point? The other lesson is that men are helpless without the women in their lives. So I guess there is a lesson after all! Mazel tov, Alfred. I liked this one! It was slow, though. I wasn't thrilled by it like I was thrilled by other Hitchcocks I've seen. It took a really long time before anybody got murdered, which was okay, and it sure picked up the pace at the end to make up for it. I definitely don't mind slow, but if you're looking for a consistently fast-paced thriller, this isn't it. I loved the premise of it, though, and it made for a visually interesting film, looking through all those windows. Grace Kelly was really, really great! Jimmy Stewart was swell! Thelma Ritter was hilarious! Overall, it was just good to be watching Hitchcock again.
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