Rope poster
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay Arthur Laurents

Rope

Tagline: It begins with a shriek...it ends with a shot! From beginning to end, nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE!

Release Date: 1948-03-11

Duration: 81 minutes

Synopsis

Two longtime friends attempt to prove that they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party with the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Casting

  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Man Walking in Street After Opening Credits (uncredited)
  • James Stewart
    Rupert Cadell
  • Farley Granger
    Phillip Morgan
  • Cedric Hardwicke
    Mr. Henry Kentley
  • Constance Collier
    Mrs. Anita Atwater
  • Douglas Dick
    Kenneth Lawrence
  • John Dall
    Brandon Shaw
  • Edith Evanson
    Mrs. Wilson
  • Joan Chandler
    Janet Walker
  • Dick Hogan
    David Kentley