DVD
Rope
Call Number
- DVD MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)
Performers
James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler.
Publication Information
Universal City, CA : Universal, c2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Two friends strangle a classmate, then invite his family and friends to dinner with the body stuffed inside the trunk they are using for a buffet table. As the killers turn the conversation to committing the perfect murder, their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious. Before the night is over, the professor will discover how brutally his students have turned his academic theories into chilling reality. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Notes
DVD format ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.
Videodisc release of the 1948 motion picture.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Rated PG.
In English with optional soundtracks in French or Spanish.
From the play by Patrick Hamilton.
Special features include: Original documentary, Rope unleashed, on the making of Rope, featuring interviews with cast member Farley Granger, collaborator Hume Cronyn, screenwriter Arthur Laurents and Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, daughter of Alfred Hitchcock ; production photographs: a poster and photograph gallery from the film ; production notes ; cast and filmmakers ; theatrical trailer.
Presented in a full screen format which preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio (1.33:1).