
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York City apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley, and as a consequence, decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancée Janet, and their old schoolteacher Rupert, from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly ... (Full plot summary below)
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Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York City apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley, and as a consequence, decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancée Janet, and their old schoolteacher Rupert, from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.
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| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumExperimental Hitchcock murder mystery, very stagey |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyRope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesRope isn't merely a terrific movie; it is also a benchmark for which the intricate nature of the killer's mind can be simplified into immense clarity. |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterThis modestly successful thriller stands out as Alfred Hitchcock's first colour film and for the presence of two obviously gay lead characters. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonOne of the cinema's supreme, most outrageously eccentric and audacious technical experiments: the legendary single shot movie. |
| Film ExperienceNathaniel RogersAn elaborately perverse buffet served up at a pivotal moment in Hitchcock's career |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyHitchcock said it was a stunt, but Rope is a fascinating experiment trying to find the cinematic equivalent to a play, with the camera constantly searching |
| Slant MagazineFernando F. CroceA crime for most, a privilege for some is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII. |
| BDK ReviewsKevin McCarthyRope is Hitchock's underrated classic that contains some of the most unique filmmaking of it's time. Hitchcock was so far ahead of filmmakers back then and so far ahead of a lot of the filmmakers today. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonA strange foreboding of what was to come from the Hitch. |