TCM Party screens Rear Window, viewers praise Hitchcock climax

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TCM Party screened Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Rear Window tonight, starring James Stewart as L.B. Jeffries and Grace Kelly as Lisa Fremont. The broadcast highlighted the film's climactic apartment confrontation and rooftop stair sequence, featuring Raymond Burr's chilling stare at camera and Grace Kelly's tense ladder climb in heels. Program notes pointed out production details such as Gerald Murphy designing Lisa's overnight case and Ross Bagdasarian's small role as the courtyard songwriter, the creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks. The screening underscored why Rear Window remains a masterclass in visual suspense and continues to provoke questions about voyeurism and gender power dynamics.

TCMFanatics

@tcmfans.bsky.social

Thelma Ritter, Grace Kelly & James Stewart, star in Hitchcock's (1954) masterpiece... Rear Window, up next.

4965h ago

8647 Henry Jones III 🚇🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️5

I could watch this film a thousand times, and still be delighted by Thelma Ritter. She was *goddamn wonderful*...in everything! Shining brighter than Celeste Holm or Bette Davis was all in a day's work for her. ❤️⭐

FLR4

I can watch this any time I come across it or remember I have it on Prime. And Grace Kelly. Damn! Beautiful and brave & feisty. She was too good for Jimmy Stewart’s character.

Mo Amie4

Love her dresses 👗 😍

Girl from Downers Grove3

This is one of my top five all time favorite movies. Love it, love It, love it! Of course, I'm not scared during it any longer because I've seen in maybe seven, eight times? But the first time I watched it I was tensed up and scared!

Tinman3

My favorite Hitchcock movie 🍿

ELIZE2

One of Hitch's most suspenseful, with Jimmy's voyeuristic gaze & Thelma's sassy wit. Can't wait to see it!

shaver

@letterbotoxd.bsky.social

I don't know if anyone ever looked better on screen than Grace Kelly in Rear Window. Holy cow #tcmparty

904h ago

VanCityNancy🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦2

YES and Jimmy Stewart was very handsome in that movie as well

Toni (Still 😷ing...)2

Edith Head was a costuming genius.

Mathias

@mathias.bsky.social

My favorite Rear Window fact The "songwriter" character across the courtyard in the 1954 film Rear Window was played by Ross Bagdasarian, who went by the stage name David Seville. Bagdasarian was most famous for creating Alvin and the Chipmunks. #TCMParty #RearWindow

724h ago

Geoffrey Henry

@gdhenry.bsky.social

The moment in which Raymond Burr stares at the camera is one of my favorites in motion pictures. #RearWindow #TCMParty

543h ago

Angelique M

@library-ang.bsky.social

This is the shot that always makes first time viewers gasp. #RearWindow #TCMParty

413h ago

Pete Woods

@thatpetewoods.bsky.social

I see folks are watching #RearWindow for the #TCMWatchParty tonight. Welcome to one of the finest suspense thrillers/black comedies ever made. The hardest bit of suspension-of-disbelief for me was the idea Grace Kelly would be romantically involved with a mortal man.

363h ago

Phil Hester

@philhester.bsky.social

The older I get, the harder it gets to watch Rear Window. You can't treat Grace Kelly like that, Jimmy Stewart!

482h ago

Phil Hester22

Grace Kelly dropping in: "Hi. What did you accomplish today, Jeff?" Any other human being on earth of any orientation: "I wrote another poem about your shoulder blades."

Trey Lawson4

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but the Jimmy Stewart Hitchcocks have not aged as well as the Cary Grant Hitchcocks.

Krackles3

— Worse, Grace Kelly ended up marrying a nobody and quit movies, *sigh* —

Matthew Childers2

He's watching the neighbors and we're watching him being an idiot.

Seán Kennedy2

Love that film, but his character was SUCH a dick to her.

Mark Coale2

Kim Novak says hold my beer.

@7295murphy.bsky.social

Philly girl climbing that ladder in heels like it’s nothing. #RearWindow #TCMParty

283h ago

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul

@celluloidsoul.bsky.social

I really hate that that cute little dog gets killed. How it was done is so violent and awful too, not that any way wouldn't have been awful. 😞 #RearWindow #TCMParty

213h ago