Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.


Books with substantial mentioning of Rope

David Greven
Intimate violence, Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory
Oxford, 2017

David Humbert
Violence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, A study in mimesis
East Lansing, 2017

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Christopher D. Morris
The Hanging Figure, On Suspence and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2002

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Articles on Rope

Kevin Clifton, The anatomy of aural suspense in Rope and Vertigo, in: Steven Rawle and K.J. Donnelly (eds.), Partners in suspense, Manchester, 2017

Amy Lawrence, Anerican Shame. Rope, James Stewart, and the Postwar Crisis in American Masculinity, in: Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington (eds.), Hitchcock's America, New York; Oxford, 1999


Year: 1948
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0040746