Rope
- Sat, Dec 7
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 81 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1948
Starring: Douglas Dick, Farley Granger, James Stewart, Joan Chandler, John Dall
Screenwriter: Arthur Laurents from the play by Patrick Hamilton
Producers: Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock
With an introduction and book signing event with Alonso Duralde, author of Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film.
Loosely inspired by the “crime of the century,” the brutal thrill-killing of Bobby Franks by Leopold and Loeb, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope is both a true crime and reclaimed Queer classic. Two friends attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner for the family of a classmate they strangled to death. Shot as one take (although craftily stitched together from 4 long takes) the taut terror commences in real-time. While the characters in the original play were explicitly homosexual, censorship in 1940s Hollywood only allowed for gay subtext and coding.