Rope
1948, NR, 80 min.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall.

Universal Hitchcock Series: Hitchcock famously experimented in Rope with temporal structure (the film is shot in supposed real time in 10-minute-long takes). It tells the story of two thrill murderers who were based on Leopold and Loeb, a story also told in Compulsion and Swoon.

This article appears in August 20 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.