Rear Window (1954)

Rear Window rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.5/10· 568K votes

Rotten Tomatoes99%

Metacritic100%

TMDb8.3/10· 7K votes

With 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.5/10 on IMDb and 100/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Rear Window

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Cast of Rear Window

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  James Stewart

  as L.B. Jefferies

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  Grace Kelly

  as Lisa Fremont

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  Wendell Corey

  as Thomas Doyle

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  Thelma Ritter

  as Stella

• 

  Raymond Burr

  as Lars Thorwald

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  Judith Evelyn

  as Miss Lonelyhearts

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  Ross Bagdasarian

  as Songwriter

• 

  Georgine Darcy

  as Miss Torso

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  Sara Berner

  as Woman on Fire Escape

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  Frank Cady

  as Man on Fire Escape

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  Jesslyn Fax

  as Miss Hearing Aid

• R

  Rand Harper

  as Newlywed

Rear Window facts

Budget

$1M

Box office

$37M

Our take on Rear Window

Hitchcock turns a broken leg into a perfect thriller: a housebound photographer, his telephoto lens, and the conviction that a neighbour has committed murder. Confined almost entirely to one apartment, it's a sly meditation on voyeurism that implicates the audience in its hero's snooping while ratcheting suspense from pure observation. If its slow-burn, single-vantage tension hooked you, look for mystery thrillers that build dread from watching and waiting rather than chases and reveals.