Rear Window (9/10) Movie CLIP - Out the Window (1954) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Thorwald (Raymond Burr) is caught by police when he attacks Jeff (James Stewart) in his home and pushes him out the window.

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, Wendell Corey, James Stewart, Grace Kelly
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producers: James C. Katz, Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriters: John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich

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[James-cbnb]

Lmaoooo he fell for the same light trick 4 times

[Thermopolis]

The lack of music makes this scene incredible

[q.h.s]

James Stewart is still one of the greatest of all time. He was perfect in each movie he did

[thomasjeppesen]

I was 7 last time I saw it and what brought me back was how menacing I remembered Thorwald was. However, while watching this scene and hearing Thorwald asking Jeff what he want, I just realized what a poor soul he was. Thorwald is exhausted, tired and wants closure to the whole affair. Yeah, he is a murderer and deserved to be caught, but Hitchcock really understood what most murderers are all about. Thorwald is portrayed as much a menace as he is portrayed a human in this scene.

[mlbf]

Why is everyone suddenly moving at lightning speed? Its like someone hit the fast forward button.

[mrhorrorjunkie]

They don't call Alfred Hitchcock "the master of suspense" for nothing

[maddalonefarms]

0:02 He’s just standing there... MENACINGLY!!

[classics]

Raymond Burr was so perfectly cast in this role. His deep voice rumbling from the shadows is terrifying, almost inhuman. When he asks why Lisa didn’t turn him in, he’s basically admitting his guilt. He doesn’t make any effort to deny because he knows Jeff saw everything.

[todessehnsucht]

Probably the best movie I have ever seen.

[joeytaylor]

My grandpa used to imitate 2:08 off a diving board when he was a boy

[eher]

This scene is the only time, in the whole movie, that you get to see a bit of how the facade of the oposite side of the courtyard looks like, where Jeff's apartment is located (Stewart's character).

[SpatialSpandex]

1:38 the sounds if struggle that Jommy Stewart makes always gets to me. The helplessness of knowing that Thorwald is trying to kill him.

[mrskinszszs]

I don't get why Thorwald didn't just shield his eyes after the first camera flash.

[starrbeatlesqueen]

I never understood Stella's expression after she says "No, thanks, I don't want any part of her".

[profchaos]

so this is how he got his Acrophobia in Vertigo, lmao

[CheeseYourself]

It's so surreal knowing that basically everyone who worked on this film is dead now

[Snips.Snails.Fairytales]

Honestly, there's a couple of moments where I feel sort of sorry for Thorwald. This scene where he's desperately saying he has no money and earlier in the film where he gives his wife one of the flowers from his garden for her to throw it away.

We never get a deep understanding into why he resorted to murder, and this film is fascinating in that it almost doesn't matter. Jeff and Lisa look in on him and all of the others for entertainment but not for an understanding of the people themselves.

[RicoBurghFan]

The comical element was obvious in the scene. For a monster, which was what Thorwald was portrayed as-- see his clunky robotic movements throughout-- to be put off by flash bulbs is hilarious. Hitchcock compared it to Frankenstein's monster being freaked out by fire, which also had a comical element too (see Young Frankenstein.). Yet and still there was suspense and dread in the scene along with the over the top moments, sort of like the climax to North By Northwest. I loved this scene. It was scary and funny all at the same time, classic Hitchcock.

[jreiter]

thorwald chopped up his wife and scattered the body parts. she realizes her comments' double meaning after saying it.

[billyoneill]

The way Stewart fell onto the ground with his eyes wide open just cracks me up. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣