What is Rope / Lifeboat about?

Name: Rope / Lifeboat
Genre: Drama,Suspense/Thriller

ROPE, 1948, Universal, 80 min. This startling Alfred Hitchcock film was doubly daring for 1948: first, it risked depicting the Leopold & Loeb-like tale of homosexual lovers committing murder solely for the thrill. If that wasn’t enough, it told the tale in a series of long, ten minute takes, unlike anything any director had previously attempted. Having passed over the heads of most audiences when originally released, the film is a revelation by today’s standards. LIFEBOAT, 1944, 20th Century Fox, 96 min. The third of Alfred Hitchcock’s great wartime thrillers finds the director working on a limited physical canvas but a vastly complex ethical one. Eight survivors of a German bombing are stranded in a lifeboat, where they pick up a ninth passenger—a stranded Nazi.

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What is Rope / Lifeboat about?: ROPE, 1948, Universal, 80 min. This startling Alfred Hitchcock film was doubly daring for 1948: first, it risked depicting the Leopold & Loeb-like tale of homosexual lovers committing murder solely for the thrill. If that wasn’t enough, it told the tale in a series of long, ten minute takes, unlike anything any director had previously attempted. Having passed over the heads of most audiences when originally released, the film is a revelation by today’s standards.

LIFEBOAT, 1944, 20th Century Fox, 96 min. The third of Alfred Hitchcock’s great wartime thrillers finds the director working on a limited physical canvas but a vastly complex ethical one. Eight survivors of a German bombing are stranded in a lifeboat, where they pick up a ninth passenger—a stranded Nazi.