Brandon increases the tension by playing matchmaker between Janet and Kenneth. Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Granger), strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. With Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Robert Brown, Peter Byrne. The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. ... interviews and features from the international film magazine. Long Rope, The aka Large Rope, The Date: 1953 Director: Wolf Rilla Production Company: Victor Hanbury Productions as Insignia Stars: Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Robert Brown Location(s): Turville, Buckinghamshire Each shot ran continuously for up to ten minutes (the camera's film capacity) without interruption. More information. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim's father, Mr. Kentley (Cedric Hardwicke), and aunt, Mrs. Atwater (Constance Collier); his mother is unable to attend because of a cold. The Long Rope may refer to: "The Long Rope", February 5, 1949 episode of American radio series The Adventures of Philip Marlowe#Episodes; The Long Rope, British crime drama directed by Wolf Rilla; original title The Large Rope "The Long Rope", September 26, 1960 episode of American TV western Cheyenne (List of Cheyenne episodes); The Long Rope, American western directed by William Witney [21] Every other segment ends by panning against or tracking into an object—a man's jacket blocking the entire screen, or the back of a piece of furniture, for example. Menu. [20], Hitchcock shot for periods lasting up to 10 minutes (the length of a film camera magazine), continuously panning from actor to actor, though most shots in the film wound up being shorter. In: Wollen, Peter. Within the course of the film the clouds—made of spun glass—change position and shape eight times. [34], After the film's release, Warner Bros. transferred the distribution rights to Hitchcock's estate, where they were acquired by, Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. Título original: The Large Rope. Movies. [32], Rope presently holds a score of 94% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 7.78/10. Brandon and Phillip's idea for the murder was inspired years earlier by conversations with their prep-school housemaster, publisher Rupert Cadell (Stewart). As the evening goes on, David's father and fiancée begin to worry because he has neither arrived nor phoned. Film lists and highlights from BFI Player. It is the second of Hitchcock's "limited setting" films, the first being Lifeboat. Rupert disavows all his previous talk of superiority and inferiority and fires several shots out the window to attract attention. In this way, Hitchcock effectively masked half the cuts in the film.[22]. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock. 1953. [10] Plot. [3], Contemporary reviews were mixed. Cobstone Windmill, Turville, Buckinghamshire, England, UK 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? The Large Rope (1953) Tweet. Phillip later complains to Brandon about having had a "rotten evening," not because of David's murder, but because of Rupert's questioning. But it really didn't work. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.[7]. The production credits on the film were as follows: According to Warner Bros records the film earned $2,028,000 domestically and $720,000 overseas. Hitchcock used this long-take approach again to a lesser extent on his next film, Under Capricorn (1949), and in a very limited way in his film Stage Fright (1950). Synopsis: A wrongly accused convict returns home, only to be maligned again. Numerous chimneys smoke, lights come on in buildings, neon signs light up, and the sunset slowly unfolds as the movie progresses. Donald Houston Susan Shaw Robert Brown. [31], On its theatrical release in 1948, Rope performed poorly at the box office. [4] It included models of the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. Category. A drunk Phillip, unable to bear it anymore, throws a glass and accuses Rupert of playing cat-and-mouse games with him and Brandon. [18][19] as was co-star Farley Granger and screenwriter Arthur Laurents. Hitchcock told François Truffaut in the book-length Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon & Schuster, 1967) that he ended up re-shooting the last four or five segments because he was dissatisfied with the color of the sunset. However, at the end of 20 minutes (two magazines of film make one reel of film on the projector in the movie theater), the projectionist—when the film was shown in theaters—had to change reels. In Time magazine's 1948 review, the play that the film was based on is called an "intelligent and hideously exciting melodrama" though "in turning it into a movie for mass distribution, much of the edge [is] blunted" explaining: Much of the play's deadly excitement dwelt in [the] juxtaposition of callow brilliance and lavender dandyism with moral idiocy and brutal horror. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise: they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder.". The continuous action and the extremely mobile camera are technical features of which industry craftsmen will make much, but to the layman audience effect is of a distracting interest. All rights reserved. "[25] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times found that the "novelty of the picture is not in the drama itself, it being a plainly deliberate and rather thin exercise in suspense, but merely in the method which Mr. Hitchcock has used to stretch the intended tension for the length of the little stunt" for a "story of meager range". The play on which the film was based explicitly portrays Brandon and Phillip in a homosexual relationship. Filmaffinity no tiene relación alguna con el productor, productora o el director de la película. On these changeovers, Hitchcock cuts to a new camera setup, deliberately not disguising the cut. In the movie, the boys and their teacher are shrewdly plausible but much more conventional types. Brandon uses the chest containing the body as a buffet table for the food, just before their housekeeper, Mrs. Wilson (Edith Evanson), arrives to help with the party. "[27] The Monthly Film Bulletin found that the actors, "for the most part, are excellent" but that "as a film, much of the suspense of the story and the drama of the original written material has been lost because the continual movement within a confined space, although more fluid, is slower and more tiring to watch than a film which has been edited by the conventional method".

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