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The original trailer for this movie apparently does not exist. Only a reissue trailer can be found o [...]	D
In the film, after Grace Kelly kisses James Stewart, while he talks about what happened across the c [...]	D
All of the sound in this movie is diegetic, meaning that all the music, speech, and other sounds all [...]	D
One of Jeff's neighbors can be heard listening to "To See You (Is to Love You)" performed by Bing Cr [...]	D
The take-out dinner Lisa heats up and serves to Jeff is Lobster Thermidor with Pommes Frites Ã la [...]	D
Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Mystery" in J [...]	D
This movie was unavailable for three decades because its rights (together with four other movies of [...]	D
All the apartments in Thorwald's building had electricity and running water, and could be lived in.	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock briefly considered shooting on location in Greenwich Village, but abandoned the [...]	D
In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Sir Alfred Hitchcock claimed that he felt a bit of sympathy [...]	D
This movie was shot on a specially constructed set that took fifty men two months to build, and cost [...]	D
Jeff comments to Stella that when he gets married it will be to "somebody who thinks of life not jus [...]	D
By most accounts, everyone was crazy about Grace Kelly. According to James Stewart, "Everybody just [...]	D
Based on the photo on Jeff's (James Stewart's) wall, Doyle (Wendell Corey) and Jeff flew a de Havill [...]	D
This movie was inspired in part by the real-life murder case of Patrick Mahon. In 1924, in Sussex, E [...]	D
In addition to the song "Lisa," which was written for this film and is not sung until the very end, [...]	D
The $1100 dress Lisa wears (black bodice, white skirt) would be $11,000 in 2021.	D
When Jeff phones the police to report Lisa's attack, he gives the Thorwald address as 125 West 9th. [...]	D
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock spent a great deal of time with costume designer Edith Head on Grace K [...]	D
Along with Il delitto perfetto (1954) and Caccia al ladro (1955), this is one of three movies direct [...]	D
Grace Kelly turned down the role of Edie Doyle in Fronte del porto (1954) to make this film.	D
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the 48th Greatest Movie of All Time.	D
During the month-long shoot, Georgine Darcy (Miss Torso), "lived" in her apartment all day, relaxing [...]	D
The camera work on Jefferies' fall from the window is something of an Alfred Hitchcock trademark. It [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart had a friendship that was oddly intimate while being somewhat [...]	D
At one point, Jeffrey makes a joke-like comment about Finland. At the very end of his career, after [...]	D
The massive indoor set, was up to that time, the largest indoor set in Paramount's history. It could [...]	D
Playing the part of the man who sleeps on his mattress on the fire escape is Frank Cady, also known [...]	D
The cast includes three Oscar winners: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, and Gig Young; and two Oscar nomi [...]	D
Lisa asks Jeff sarcastically if he can see her apartment all the way up at 63rd St. This would place [...]	D
At the time, the set was the largest indoor set built at "Paramount Pictures" Studios.	D
Joe Flynn was cast in the movie, but his scene was cut.	D
One of the first examples to firmly establish the auteur theory. Sir Alfred Hitchcock's La finestra [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock: (At around 25 minutes) Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment. The songwr [...]	D
James Stewart was 46 years old, and Grace Kelly was 25 when this movie was made.	D
James Stewart has stated that of the four movies he made with Sir Alfred Hitchcock, this one is his [...]	D
The lens Jeff (James Stewart) used on his camera to spy on his neighbors is reportedly a 400mm prime [...]	D
Although uncredited, the ballet music Miss Torso is dancing to in her apartment is Leonard Bernstein [...]	D
L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) broke his leg while taking a photograph of a racing accident. In 1961 [...]	D
Rated #42 among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.	D
To accommodate the enormous set, a higher ceiling was required. Sir Alfred Hitchcock had the product [...]	D
Franz Waxman's final score for Sir Alfred Hitchcock.	D
The set had to have four lighting set-ups always in place for various times of the day. Remote switc [...]	D
James Stewart's character is confined to a wheelchair throughout the film. Raymond Burr, the villain [...]	D
The flash that Jefferies uses is the same type of unit that would be used as the body of Luke Skywal [...]	D
The film is set in Manhattan, New York City in the Greenwich Village area. This is verified by the M [...]	D
Grace Kelly celebrated her birthday on the set (November 12, 1953).	D
The first German dubbing was created in 1955. After the rights to this movie reverted back to Sir Al [...]	D
The pale green suit that Grace Kelly wears when she and James Stewart are discussing Mrs. Thorwald's [...]	D
Rated #14 among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the Top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American [...]	D
Trade magazines of the time reported the world premiere was August 4, 1954 at the Rivoli Theatre in [...]	D
As originally scripted, Jeff speaking to his editor on the telephone was to take place in the editor [...]	D
There are several explanations for why Jeff is the only neighbor to notice the scream from the Thorw [...]	D
Right after Stella gives Jeff a lecture on love and marriage he watches a newlywed couple enter thei [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock gave Georgine Darcy free range to choreograph her own dance moves for her chara [...]	D
Despite big box-office success and four Oscar nominations, the film failed to score a best picture O [...]	D
Grace Kelly was offered this film and "On the Waterfront" at the same time. She chose, "Rear Window" [...]	D
The eighth-highest grossing film of 1954.	D
To determine what special effect to employ when Jeff fends off Thorwald with the camera flashes, sev [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock deliberately shot most of the set-ups so they would appear voyeuristic.	D
The 35mm camera that James Stewart holds with the huge telephoto lens attached is an early 1950s Exa [...]	D
While shooting, Sir Alfred Hitchcock worked only in Jeff's "apartment". The actors and actresses in [...]	D
Body count: two (Thorwald's wife and the neighbor's dog).	D
One of the photographs on the wall in Jeff's (James Stewart's) apartment is a photograph of him stan [...]	D
Cinematographer Robert Burks devised a system using a camera with a telephoto lens mounted on a cran [...]	D
Other than a couple of shots near the end and the discovery of the dead dog, all the shots in the mo [...]	D
The film negative was damaged considerably as a result of color dye fading as early as the 1960s. Ne [...]	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
A bit of prop trickery had to be used when Stella pulls out the binoculars from their leather case h [...]	D
In Cornell Woolrich's short story on which this movie was based, it's not revealed until the last li [...]	D
The original story by Cornell Woolrich had no love story and no additional neighbors for L.B. Jeffer [...]	D
The take out meal (ostensibly from "21") that's so delectably shown has one curiosity. The wine that [...]	D
The entire movie was shot on one set, which required months of planning and construction. The apartm [...]	D
Lisa points to the ring on her finger in Thorwald's apartment not only to let Jeff know she got it, [...]	D
Kathryn Grant, uncredited as Girl at Songwriter's Party, went on to marry Bing Crosby, who co-starre [...]	D
In addition to Patrick Mahon, Sir Alfred Hitchcock noted in the modern interview that the 1910 case [...]	D
The book that Lisa is reading at the end is an actual book, "Beyond the High Himalayas" by Supreme C [...]	D
Stella remains aloof and even scolding to Jeff about peeping on his neighbors, until he mentions tha [...]	D
According to Thelma Ritter, Sir Alfred Hitchcock never told actors and actresses if he liked what th [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock worked closely with Edith Head on the costume designs, being sure to give the m [...]	D
The majority of automobiles seen from Jeff's apartment are from the Nash Motors Co. The first car is [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock supposedly hired Raymond Burr to play Lars Thorwald because he could be easily [...]	D
During the opening of the film, (about 23 seconds in) as the camera leaves Jeff's apt. and follows a [...]	D
According to Georgine Darcy, the man and woman on the fire escape struggling to get out of the rain [...]	D
Added to the National Film Registry in 1997.	D
The first of nine Alfred Hitchcock movies to be edited by George Tomasini.	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
As discussed by FranÃ§ois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock in the former's famous interviews to the l [...]	D
James Stewart's character Jeff winds up in a cast after being injured while photographing at a motor [...]	D
Lisa orders dinner from "21" to be delivered to Jeff's apartment. The 21 Club, often referred to as [...]	D
Screenwriter John Michael Hayes based Lisa on his own wife, who'd been a professional fashion model [...]	D
By the time the movie went before the cameras, Sir Alfred Hitchcock had dropped more than one hundre [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock liked working with James Stewart, especially in comparison to his other most fr [...]	D
The love affair between war photographer Robert Capa and Ingrid Bergman is believed to be Sir Alfred [...]	D
A major influence on other thrillers, Brian De Palma's Omicidio a luci rosse (1984) and Phillip Noyc [...]	D
According to Georgine Darcy, there were four separate lighting settings for this movie, which were m [...]	D
One thousand arc lights were used to simulate sunlight. Thanks to extensive pre-lighting of the set, [...]	D
With the death of Rand Harper (Newlywed) in 2016 all credited cast members are deceased.	D
Kathryn Grant appears in the party scene that takes place in Ross Bagdasarian's apartment.	D

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