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A suspicious Rupert quizzes a fidgety Phillip about this and some of the inconsistencies raised in conversation. However, much of the conversation focuses on David and his strange absence, which worries the guests. Atwater, who fancies herself a fortune-teller, tells him that his hands will bring him great fame, she refers to his skill at the piano, but he appears to think this refers to the notoriety of being a strangler. He does not conceal it well and starts to drink too much.
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Phillip, on the other hand, is visibly upset and morose. He, too, is among the guests at the party since Brandon, in particular, thinks that he would approve of their "work of art."īrandon's subtle hints about David's absence indirectly lead to a discussion on the "art of murder." Brandon appears calm and in control, although when he first speaks to Rupert, he is nervously excited and stammering. While they were at school, Rupert had discussed with them, in an apparently approving way, the intellectual concepts of Nietzsche's Superman, as a means of showing one's superiority over others. Wilson, arrives to help with the party.īrandon and Phillip's idea for the murder was inspired years earlier by conversations with their prep-school housemaster, publisher Rupert Cadell. James Stewart, the actor who plays Rupert Cadell in the filmīrandon uses the chest containing the body as a buffet table for the food, just before their housekeeper, Mrs. Also present are David's fiancée, Janet Walker, and her former lover, Kenneth Lawrence, who was once David's close friend. Atwater his mother is unable to attend because of a cold. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim's father, Mr. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise: they want to prove their superiority by committing the " perfect murder".Īfter hiding the body in a large antique wooden chest, Brandon and Phillip host a dinner party at the apartment, which has a panoramic view of Manhattan's skyline. Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from prep school, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. 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. It is the second of Hitchcock's "limited setting" films, the first being Lifeboat (1944). Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched together long takes. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.
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Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.