MPAA rating: PG.
Run time: 112 minutes.
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MPAA rating: PG. Run time: 112 minutes. Click on thumbnails below for larger images:
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Synopsis "A magazine photographer, housebound on account of a broken leg, becomes voyeur to the apartment building facing his rear window for lack of anything to do. Soon, he draws his visiting girlfriend in on the thrill and eventually they witness a murder in progress that gets them into hot water." 
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Cast James Stewart - L. B. 'Jeff' Jeffries Grace Kelly - Lisa Carol Fremont Wendell Corey - Lieutenant Thomas J. Doyle Thelma Ritter - Stella Raymond Burr - Lars Thorwald Judith Evelyn - Miss Lonelyheart Ross Bagdasarian - Songwriter Georgine Darcy - Miss Torso, the Ballet Dancer Sara Berner - Woman on Fire Escape Frank Cady - Man on Fire Escape Jesslyn Fax - Miss Hearing Aid Rand Harper - Newlywed Man Irene Winston - Mrs. Anna Thorwald Havis Davenport - Newlywed Woman Marla English - Girl at Songwriter's Party 
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Crew Distributed by: Paramount Pictures Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Screenwriter: John Michael Hayes Art Director: Hal Pereira Cinematographer: Robert Burks Composer: Franz Waxman Editor: George Tomasini Production Designer: Joseph MacMillan Johnson Story: Cornell Woolrich 
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Awards Academy Award Nominations - 1954 Best Cinematography - Robert Burks Best Director - Alfred Hitchcock Best Original Screenplay - John Michael Hayes Best Sound - Loren L. Ryder 
British Academy Awards - 1954 Best British Film - Alfred Hitchcock (Nomination) 
EAP - 1954 Best Screenplay (Nomination) New York Film Critics Circle - 1954 Best Actress - Grace Kelly Best Direction - Alfred Hitchcock (Nomination) 
American Film Institute - 1998 Chosen as one of the 100 Greatest American Movies 
Cameo: Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance (see photo above) an hour into the film, winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment. |
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