Rear Window (8/10) Movie CLIP - Up the Stairs (1954) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Jeff (James Stewart) prepares a lap full of light bulbs for his flash when he hears Thorwald (Raymond Burr) sneaking up on his apartment.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires.

CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1954)
Cast: Raymond Burr, James Stewart
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producers: James C. Katz, Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriters: John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich

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[CamilleNadia]

Jeff's reaction when he realizes it's Thorwald on the phone is priceless. I've seen this movie a million times and I can't breathe the whole time he's waiting for the guy to come up the stairs.

[lukebaxter]

This was one of the most suspenseful scenes I have seen in recent years mainly due to there being no music. The use of the sound of the door slamming and the footsteps are actually scary since we don't cut to the neighbour. Just amazing filmmaking here.

[sophisticatedsheltie]

This was so intense the first time I watched it. I was sweaty, and my heart was pounding. Such a great movie.

[firetxranger]

The way Thorwald looks straight into the camera is horrifying. It actually gives me chills!

[kobzster]

Some elements of this scene seem to be similar to "No Country for Old Men" when the Llewelyn Moss character nervously sits in his room as Anton slowly walks up the stairs towards his room. Hitchcock a true genius before his time.

[astrodogg]

The way Thorwald just glares at L.B.... whooo!! Gave me chills!

[kathleenknowles]

Raymond Burr stole that movie. He barely had any speaking parts, yet he was absolutely scary. He did it all with facial expressions.

[sanctuaryrain]

I miss movies like this!!  So much suspense, no swearing, no blood and gore just a great suspense movie.  James Stewart, always loved him as an actor.  All before my time but I MISS the old days!!!

[StealthMode]

That look of horror when he realizes Thorwald is coming for him as he hears those footsteps coming up while he’s trapped in his wheelchair...😰
LOCK THE DOOR!

[MermaidMidna]

I held my breath through this entire scene. Amazing how Hitchcock can scare the crap out of you with only a few noises and the anticipation that something is coming.

[waynelovell]

They Hitchcock was the only director to never look through the camera lens on set. Watched this film countless times. A classic.

[pedanticvampire]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present fro your viewing pleasure, the most heart-poundingly suspenseful scene in all of movie history.

[DDiez]

This, Vertigo and Psycho are his best films.

[maximillianford]

Single most suspenseful scene in any of Hitchcock's films, more suspenseful than any of the three spine chiller scenes in Psycho, more suspenseful than any climaxes in Sabotage, Blackmail, Strangers On A Train, or Shadow Of A Doubt. First time I watched this scene I could barely watch. Heart pounding, palms sweaty. Hitchcock was an absolute genius.

[Arhimajviva]

The fact that our dude was on a wheel chair in this scene makes it even more terrifying

[hippiecheezburger]

I’ve always thought of Rear Window especially as one of the greatest suspense films of all time, I swear Hitchcock invented suspense within filmmaking and he always did it so well, it always had me on the edge of my seat, also the scene before where his girlfriend breaks into Thorwalds apartment, just perfectly nerve racking

[adamzanzie]

When the line clicks at 0:17... gives me chills every time.

[dennisandry]

After becoming a Perry Mason fan, I found out that was Raymond Burr n this movie

[dennisandry]

I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT LOOK THAT THORWALL GAVE JEFFRIES !!!

[childintime]

The same year this great movie came out was when a legendary monster first stepped into Tokyo. I hope there are those of you that know what monster I'm talking about.