What is Rear Window / The Trouble with Harry about?

Name: Rear Window / The Trouble with Harry
Genre: Comedy,Suspense/Thriller

REAR WINDOW, 1954, Universal, 112 min. Adapted from a short story by noir master Cornell Woolrich, REAR WINDOW stars James Stewart as L.B. Jeffries, an ace photographer bound to a wheelchair after breaking his leg on assignment. Despite receiving visits from his high-fashion sweetheart, Lisa (Grace Kelly), Jeffries is bored and soon resorts to spying on his tenement neighbors through a telephoto lens. Suddenly, he has cause to regret his indiscretion -- it seems the ailing wife of a traveling salesman neighbor (Raymond Burr) has taken an abrupt trip. Or has she? THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, 1955, Universal, 99 min. One of Hitchcock’s most underrated films is also one of his most profoundly romantic. This story of an idyllic community’s attempt to dispose of an inconvenient corpse offers plenty of opportunities for macabre humor, which Hitch supplies in mass quantities.

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What is Rear Window / The Trouble with Harry about?: REAR WINDOW, 1954, Universal, 112 min. Adapted from a short story by noir master Cornell Woolrich, REAR WINDOW stars James Stewart as L.B. Jeffries, an ace photographer bound to a wheelchair after breaking his leg on assignment. Despite receiving visits from his high-fashion sweetheart, Lisa (Grace Kelly), Jeffries is bored and soon resorts to spying on his tenement neighbors through a telephoto lens. Suddenly, he has cause to regret his indiscretion -- it seems the ailing wife of a traveling salesman neighbor (Raymond Burr) has taken an abrupt trip. Or has she?

THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, 1955, Universal, 99 min. One of Hitchcock’s most underrated films is also one of his most profoundly romantic. This story of an idyllic community’s attempt to dispose of an inconvenient corpse offers plenty of opportunities for macabre humor, which Hitch supplies in mass quantities.