On September 1, 1954, Rear Window was released into theaters. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it follows a man, L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries, who is confined to his apartment in a wheelchair and passes the time by watching the everyday activities of the residents of his apartment complex out his back window. During this time, he thinks he sees one of his neighbors murdered by her husband, and with the help of his friends, he proves his neighbor’s murder and her husband’s guilt. The main characters are Jeff, portrayed by Jimmy Stewart (who also starred in numerous other Hitchcock films, most notably Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Rope), his girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly), his nurse from his insurance company, Stella (Thelma Ritter), his policeman friend Tom Doyle
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The main characters are still guys that have been confined to their homes for one reason or another, and they both think that they live near a murderer. They both start watching their neighbors out their windows to pass the time, and they both have friends that come over and try to help him prove that they are telling the truth about the supposed murderers in their neighborhoods. The only thing that is noticeably changed between movies are the specifics of the general plot (time, place, circumstances), and the specifics of each character (name, age, physical characteristics).
Composer Franz Waxman was born on December 24, 1906 as Franz Wachsmann in Konigshutte, Upper Silesia, Germany, which is now a part of Poland. He was the youngest of six children in a family of Jewish descent. Waxman was the only musical one in the family, and his father was against him becoming a musician, thinking he wouldn’t make any money from it. He worked as a teller for two years before moving to Berlin to study composing and conducting at the Dresden Music Academy. He moved to America after taking a beating from the
The main characters are still guys that have been confined to their homes for one reason or another, and they both think that they live near a murderer. They both start watching their neighbors out their windows to pass the time, and they both have friends that come over and try to help him prove that they are telling the truth about the supposed murderers in their neighborhoods. The only thing that is noticeably changed between movies are the specifics of the general plot (time, place, circumstances), and the specifics of each character (name, age, physical characteristics).
Composer Franz Waxman was born on December 24, 1906 as Franz Wachsmann in Konigshutte, Upper Silesia, Germany, which is now a part of Poland. He was the youngest of six children in a family of Jewish descent. Waxman was the only musical one in the family, and his father was against him becoming a musician, thinking he wouldn’t make any money from it. He worked as a teller for two years before moving to Berlin to study composing and conducting at the Dresden Music Academy. He moved to America after taking a beating from the