Cult Movies - 20 Rope (1948 film) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by Patrick Hamilton (play Rope (1929) Adaptation: Hume Cronyn Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson Running time 80 min. Rope is a 1948 American crime thriller film based on the play Rope (1929) by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn (treatment) and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, it is the first of Hitchcocks Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes. The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
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