Delicious terror promised
“If you do not experience delicious terror when you see ‘Rear Window’,” Alfred Hitchcock once said, “then pinch yourself — you are most probably dead.” “Rear Window” (9.30 p.m. on Two) was one of Hitchcock’s favourite films, as it was — and still is — to audiences and critics alike ever since its original release by Paramount Pictures in 1954. To the director, it represented a unique opportunity to have a whole film seen from the viewpoint of one character and embodied in a single, large set. As for the audience, it gave them the opportunity to do something many always wished they could: to be voyeurs and spy on their neighbours. a®
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Press, 27 January 1988, Page 15
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