ROPE - Hitchcock (1948)

Nothing, indeed…a horribly mis-cast Jimmy Stewart has the keys to this savage parade..

Here is the Patrick Hamilton play adapted for radio…it’s VERY English…

• HERE is a gruesome article about the Leopold and Loeb murder, which was the basis for Rope

• HERE is another approach to the same case.

• Are you a Narcissistic Psychopath? Have a look at our handy cut-out-and-keep checklist HERE

Here’s Hitchcock himself talking about the technical aspects of ROPE.

• HERE is a longer article with a lot of production shots discussing the technical side of the movie.

…and here is Hitchcock’s unusual trailer for the Movie, kind of what we would call a pre-quell today.

…and finally, here’s what seems to be most of Compulsion, a 1959 film, very controversial at the time, based on a fictionalised account of the Leopold and Loeb case. Orson’s pretty good in this one.

…and then REALLY finally an apology. I said that the score for Hangover Square was Elmer Bernstein when I KNEW it was Bernard Hermann! There’s a video on the substack page for our Hangover Square episode of Hermann conducting the score, but here’s an excerpt from the film itself.

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