Rope (1948)

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, 
Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, 
Joan Chandler, Constance Collier

This is the month Alfred Hitchcock died. Like much of my early taste in music, books, movies, and poetry, I was introduced to Hitchcock by my father. I have a strange fascination with Hitchcock's treatment of suspense - the fascination of the chicken for the snake. 

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