REAR WINDOW (1954) - Movie Reaction - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Please for god's sake check the garden I am dying here
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Starring:
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, and Judith Evelyn
Written by:
John Michael Hayes and Cornell Woolrich
Directed by:
Alfred Hitchcock
Why can't they check the garden faster I was actually dying please just check the garden I wanna know why the dog was digging please somebody.
Anyways thanks for watching! Have a great day!! :)
When you really liked Rope, I knew you would like this one. This is my favourite Hitchcock film! 😁
Something that hasn't been done much, which you really should do, is watch William Wyler's Ben-Hur from 1959 with Charlton Heston. That's my favourite film of all time, next to The Lord of the Rings :)
P.S. Charlie Chaplin's The Goldrush 👍
It is called building suspension.
Hitchcock is a film school unto himself. And I went to film school. I think to this day we’re all still trying to catch up to Hitchcock.
There’s a 1949 film called The Window, with Bobby Driscoll, shot mostly on location in NYC, where a hot summer night and sleeping on the fire escape factored into the plot. It really was a thing. Great thriller, by the way.
It was her head that was buried under the flowers
I'm a native New York City guy and a wall of windows is not only across the back of the building but also the front. I can honestly tell you that not once did I walk into an apartment and NOT find a pair of binoculars sitting on a window ledge. A lot of New Yorkers just don't care who looks.
Oh and definitely pay attention to things outside of the main characters. Hitchcock used something called deep focus (meaning everything has the same clarity) and he set things that way to make people wonder what was going on in all those other places.
That'd be a good rental promo, "Excellent 2bd 2ba Apartment. Scenic seven-story wall of large neighbors' windows to the rear. Free set of binoculars if sign before 4-15-23."
@@billolsen4360 LOL Yeah, pretty much.
The reason the folks slept on the fire escape and why everyone had their windows open is that it was very rare to have home air conditioning in those days unless you were rich, so the only way to get relief from the summer heat was to have the windows open or sleep outside. Some people back in the old days would even go to a park to sleep in the cool grass.
How would you know? How old are you?
@@lampad4549 Wow. I appreciate you joining us from an alternate reality where books don't exist.
it's still like that in many apartments in the city. suburbanites are spoiled.
@@jdnevesytrof6208 I guess that alternate reality doesn't include history either.😺
@@lampad4549 jd speaks truth. I am 66 and remember block parties where everyone dragged a cot or blanket to the street
People often kept their apartment windows open in NYC during hot summers in the 50's as many did not yet have air conditioning. Which is why the couple sleeps out on their fire escape. And yes, the man setting the clock in the songwriter's apartment was Hitchcock making his cameo appearance.
It was San Francisco
@@fairamir1 ??what was San Francisco?
Reason you never see whats buried in the garden is that Thorwell, saw the dog sniffing around. When Jimmy Stewart(chatacter) sent Lisa and Company, to dig, Thorwell had already
moved the incriminating evidence elsewhere, its also why the garden flowers are lower, Thorwell was a little clumsy(or was in a hurry) replacing the correct amount of dirt.
What a great movie. One of Hitchcock's best.
Fun Fact: All of the sound in this movie is diegetic, meaning that all the music, speech, and other sounds all come from within the world of the movie (with the exception of non-diegetic orchestral music heard in the first three shots of the movie).
I have this feeling like so many people don't understand Stella's look at the end because they don't know what a hat box looks like.
The AFI has a synopsis of the film that explains what was in the garden: "The police apprehend Thorwald, who confesses that he deposited most of his wife's body in the East River, except for her head, which he first buried in the garden and then packed in a hatbox."
The original "What's in the box?"
@@jessicaasakevich2264 somebody call somebody
So Thorwald could look down on his precious yellow zinnia bed and say "Rest in pieces, my dear."
The composer was played by Ross Bagdasarian, better known by his stage name Dave Seville, creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
I was born in 1970 & my Mom is a *huge* movie buff, so when we got our first VCR in 1983, she quickly built up a library of classic movies. This was one of our favorites. We'd usually watch once a year in late summer, when it was likely to be warmer (as in the film). We'd open up the family room window, turn out the lights & just lose ourselves in the film's world. Great memories.
I unapologetically had a HUGE crush on Grace Kelly & for some reason, my smitten brain refused to process that she had already passed away before I even saw Rear Window for the first time. :-/
This movie is so well crafted. How not only his fiancee and housekeeper are drawn into his suspicions, but we viewers at the same time.
Thanks for a great reaction. Good to see someone being so captivated.
That was Alfred Hitchcock winding the clock. He's in all his movies somewhere. This is my favorite Hitchcock movie. I always got the impression that the wife's head was buried in the garden. In the end the detective stated that what was in the garden was in a hat box. That was my thought on that. I love Thelma Ritter. She is such a comedic actress. Grace Kelly is so stunning in this movie. And of course, James Stewart, amazing actor. Other great Hitchcock movies are, Psycho and Dial M for Murder.
Never thought about it, but the head would probably be the one part of the body that’s hardest to cut into pieces small enough to fit in the briefcase.
This is my favorite movie of all time. So many details that you can watch it over and over again yet still spot something new every time
The answer to most of your questions is, they have no air conditioning....that's why the couple slept on the fire escape, that's why their windows were open, etc, etc
Hitchcock always makes a cameo in every movie he did!! Even Rope; his image was shown in red outside the window and Hitchcock was with the guy playing the piano in Rear Window
Not every movie, but most. He made a cameo in all 30 of his films from Rebecca (1940) onwards, but only 10 of his 24 pre-Hollywood films. So that's 40 cameos in 54 films in total.
Jimmy Stewart is a favorite for Hitchcock. React to Arsenic and Old Lace. It's a 1943 comedy about a family of serial killers. Perfect for Oct. and another amazing classic.
When I was about 13, Arsenic & Old Lace was the film that really introduced me to classic film, prompting quite an obsession. Just love the oldies.
Hey man- my “first time” watching one of your reactions & I really enjoyed it. I’ll check out more for sure. If no one mentioned it- the piano playing neighbor is Ross Bagdasarian. He was a real life singer songwriter AND the creator of Alvin & The Chipmunks!! Have a great day brother!!
Awesome info, Douglas, didn’t know that! Thanks!!
The dialogues are so good and Stella is a gem!
Once a very young Steven Spielberg got kicked off An Alfred Hitchcock Film Set when trying to sneak in.
Whereas Rope was inspired by the Leopold and Loeb story, Rear Window was inspired by another true story. About a man who murdered his wife then tried to escape with his lover on a ship. They got caught because the murderer was a little too chummy with his so called male best friend.
7:29 that’s Grace Kelly who later became Princess Grace of Monaco.
A note on the script: the movie is based on a short story that concentrates on the photographer and the murder. The other residents were all a creation of the screen writer John Michael Hayes who had to flesh out the neighborhood. I don't even think Lisa was in the story.
You really need to do NORTH BY NORTHWEST next. Its considered Hifchcock's best and is sometimes called the first James Bond movie. Its also the opposite of REAR WINDOW...rather than stuck on a set, NBNW is filmed all over the country. And v rather than a slow gradual setup of the characters, NBNW takes off 10 minutes into it and never lets up.
It sucks, the iconic plane sequence makes no sense.
@@lampad4549 your taste is ummm.... what's your top 10 hitchcock movies?
@ 4:50 Practically any movie of Jimmy Stewart's you do is going to be a good one. Same with Hitchcock films. If you want to see a good christmas movie Stewart is most remember for do the Capra classic "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946). Definitely! @ 7:34 That's just over $11,000 in today's dollars. BTW, that is a cool poster of Gargantua or whatever blackhole that is to your right. @ 10:00 Hitchcock is known for his cameos doing one, sometimes two, in nearly every movie he did. He's so well known for it that there are websites showing all of them. Haven't watched your Rope video yet Ollie, but he has two in that one. If you want another really good Hitchcock classic and a good Halloween type of freaky movie do "Psycho" (1960). Another great Hitchcock movie with Grace Kelly is "Dial M For Murder". A few more Hitchcock's keep to in mind, "North By Northwest", "The Birds", "Notorious", "The 39 Steps", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Shadow Of A Doubt" and too many others to list. Hey, people have been wondering what was in the garden for over 67 years now! LOL! Recommend not researching any of these movie suggestions so you won't get any spoilers that would spoil surprises for you. I'm sure you'll like all of these based on your reaction to this one and other movies I've seen you react to. Going to check out Rope now! 😎👍
The other great Hitchcock / Jimmy Stewart movie is, of course, Vertigo.
That was Alfred Hitchcock turning the clock buddy. That was his cameo.
It was most likely the head and hands of the wife (identifiable body parts) buried in the garden, stashed away close by until the murderer figured out how to more efficiently dispose of them later. Remember, they were in a hat box.
Each apartment had its own electricity and running water. I’m guessing all the windows are open is because it’s very hot and air conditioners weren’t that common.
Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly were huge stars back in the day. Grace left the movies when she met Prince Rainier of Monaco and married him. She became Princess Grace in the mid 50’s. Jimmy was in so many good movies. Hitchcock made so many good movies. Loved North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window. No air conditioning back then so in the summer you had to have your windows open. Such a simple story and yet so good. Loved that you watched Rope. Jimmy was also in The Man Who Knew Too Much with Doris Day.
The part of the body in the garden is hinted at when the officer in the end says Torwald dug it up after the dog started digging. He says "It's in a hatbox in the apartment". Guess what?
Yes, the fact it is a hat box is meant to suggest it is a head. Considering the size and shape. I love Thelma's last line, which many seem to mishear. When asked if she wants to see what's in the hat box, she says "I don't want any part of her." Hah!
@@saucermcfly ..."any part of it."
@@donbrown1284 That's just what I mean. That is *not* what she says, but that is what most people think she says because that is the common phrase. She definitely says "No thanks; I don't want any part of her." That's why she gives Doyle a second look because she realizes what she said.
@@saucermcfly I think it's hilarious that you THINK that's what you hear. Go to 31:00 on the timeline and turn up the sound REAL LOUD so you can hear her say "No thanks...I don't want any part of it." And then does a double take. It wouldn't be as funny if she said "...any part of her" because that is NOT a common phrase. The narrator even says immediately after that "I want to know what IT is, though." Understand?
@@donbrown1284 You need to listen again. "Real loud". And have a look at the shooting script, which is readily available online. "any part of her" is correct.
You really have to watch North by Northwest !!! For me it is the best Hitchcock movie with my favorite actor of all time... Cary Grant 👐
And James Mason!
"His Girl Friday" and "Charade" are must sees if anyone likes Cary
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked James Stewart as the 3rd greatest American male actor. Probably his most well-known role is the lead In "It's A Wonderful Life"(1946), which NBC airs annually during the holidays.
The piano player is Ross Bagdasarian, David Seville from The Chipmunks.
The murderer is Raymond Burr, who played Perry Mason.
The man is sleeping on the balcony because it’s hot and there’s no air conditioning.
This is actually my 7th favourite film, my personal highest ranking film i've seen you react to so far.
Vertigo is the Hitchcock movie that was voted by a panel of 846 film critics around the world as the greatest movie ever made in the history of the universe
I liked High Anxiety better.
@@itzakpoelzig330 Yes. The bird poop episode was more horrific than Psycho's shower scene!
My favourite Hitchcocks movie and also my first one I watched on a Sunday afternoon when I was a kid.
This is such a good, gripping movie so I thought to look for people's reactions on RUclips. Surprised to find there aren't that many- but yours was the top one that came up. Enjoyed the reaction.
Thank you!!! :)
Ollie always delivers a great review.
once upon a time central air did not exist
window units came before central air, but these folks didnt have either. I'm not sure he ever figured out why the couple slept on the fire escape.
@@zedwpd …sleeping on the fire escape was a real thing in working class New York. Air conditioner window units were still a bit of a luxury item in the mid 50’s.
I'm going to have to cheerlead for FRENZY (1970 I think) Serial Killer in London, Hitchcock, fantastic sets, tense moments that go on perfectly too long and some nice comedic moments here and there, like the Detective having to eat his Wife's disgusting experimental cooking. FRENZY! Also any other Hitchcock fans who haven't seen it yet. It's great!
I really like his later work as well same with Billy Wilder's and am still baffled as to why people seem to dismiss their last efforts.
@@kaykutcher2103 As far as youtube goes I'm certain it's the algorithm and so YT bots heavily imply that ignoring algorithms leads to less views etc. Hence everyone's watching decades old classic 'for the first time' and they're all the same classics almost in the same order. Our Boy here's Rogue though and I like it :D I think the issue film wise is that generally Director's later works do tend to decline, so people assume that's all Directors when it's not
Hitchcock's macabre touches of humor are remarkable and always unexpected. Imagine he & Alma exchanged many hilarious sick jokes throughout their lives with the dry British sense of humour.
So you like character development. Watch the Hitchcock movie “life boat”. The entire cast of the movie is about 12 people in a lifeboat. Does it sound boring? It’s not.
OMG! This is a fantastic movie
You know Alfred Hitchcock basically created the slasher genre with the film Psycho, so there is a Hitchcock film you can check out during the Halloween season. Psycho is a classic horror movie.
The first official slasher was Peeping Tom made just before Psycho in the same year, but technically i'd argue that And Then There Were None was the first in 1945.
Since you are a Hitchcock fan now, watch: North by Northwest and Hitchcock's last film: Family Plot.
Yes this my favourite North by Northwest
Ollie, I really appreciate your commitment to watching classic movies. Your part of a select group. Thank you! 'Rear Window' is a classic!
This is my absolute favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie. It goes Rear Window, Rebecca, and then The Man Who Knew Too Much. TMWKTM was the very first Hitchcock I ever watched. I was maybe 7, and the scene where he walks down the street with the footsteps following him scared the crap out of young me.
I remember after this movie was over I had a slight headache from all that I had taken in and processed. Easily one of my favorites. The. Best picture Oscar winner Rebecca is right up there with Rear Window for me.
Loved your reaction to this classic masterpiece. Your question on what was buried in the garden was actually answered in the movie. This is definitely one of those movies worth watching a second (or in my case many, many) time. You’ll pick things up you didn’t necessarily notice before.
Ex-wife is when you’re divorced. Late wife is when she’s dead.
Top 3 Hitchock movies:
1) Rear Window
2) Dial M For Murder
3) Psycho
Raymond Burr starred for 9 years as a defense attorney in the TV series Perry Mason.
And let’s not forget his 8 seasons as “Ironside”
He did tell you what was in the garden. It was her head.
This is one of my favorite movies. I love your channel! You always react to movies that I grew up with. You should check out the book, Rear Window. It's a little different, but still very good! I asked Google what was in the garden, and it is believed that it was the wife's head, so now you know.
I'd love to see you react to more Hitchcock.
Fun fact the pianist is ross bagdasarian the creator of alvin and the chipmunks and the original dave.
The windows are open because there's a heat wave.
~ Ironically, Raymond Burr, who played the murderer, always played heavies before this, but soon after became the most famous & most successful lawyer in television history for the next decade or so playing the iconic Perry Mason ~
Definitely, react to Physco(1960) which stars Jaime Lee Curtis's mother, Janet Leigh. Her mother being in Pyscho was a big part of the reason why Jaime Lee Curtis was cast in Halloween(1978). One of the characters in Halloween is named from a character in Psycho, but the two characters are nothing alike.
Great reaction for a great film.
Ps yup, that was Hitchcock you saw, he always does a short cameo in his films. The game is to find him in the films 👍😎
That was great! Thank you! I first watched this when I was about 17 and was on the edge of my seat! It was nice to relive some of that suspense via your reaction.
Hey I enjoyed your reaction and doubly so since it's an old movie which I love.
If you have to make your screen translucent can't you have an utterly blank wall as the background?
Thelma Ritter steals the scenes she’s in. Check out Hitchcock’s “The wrong man.” Starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. It was based on a true story
Dude back in the 50's and 60' s ppl kept their curtains open and doors unlock. People had more morals and mind their business, unlike today's people, who is all in ypur business cause of reality TV
The reason everyone has their shades up and windows open is that it’s the middle of the summer in the days before air conditioning. That’s also the reason the couple is sleeping on their fire escape. It’s hot!
Psycho is a perfect movie for the spooky Halloween season.
They built the largest set at the time for the movie with all the apartments completely staged.
10:01 That's Hitch!
~ You weren’t listening carefully enough. One of the detectives said that the murderer confessed to having initially buried the knife he used to kill his wife in the garden, but moved it once the dog took interest ~
Necklace. That is an old fashioned hearing aid. You see here turn it down when she is annoyed by the dancing upstairs. Then she's outside and can't hear her neighbor. She has to turn it back up.
This was the 50s . Air conditioning was not a thing. So people left windows open.
Can never go wrong with a Hitchcock movie.
Check out "Rebecca," Hitchcock's first American film.
Her head was in the garden, then the hat box.
Everyone had their windows open because few people had air conditioning in those days.
If Everyone Closed their Windows ....There would be No Film!
What's in the boooooox?!?! REAR WINDOW has climbed in my personal canon to one of my ten favorite movies of all time. I'm a little surprised that reactors never figure out why people slept on the fire escape in the '50s -- in Olden Times, people didn't fancy-shmancy "air conditioning"! Though I'm not sure it made much different in the concrete canyons of New York.
I'm a year late to this party, and I'm sure everyone else has delivered all the trivia about Rear Window, so I'll try to come up with something off the wall . . . Supposedly the general plot of the movie was based on the "Dr. Crippen" case, in which a quack doctor cut up his supremely annoying wife in his basement and then fled England with his much younger lover. There are probably several documentaries about it on RUclips, and it was the subject of a best-selling book, "Thunderstruck" by Erik Larson.
I'd like to hear what Thorwald had to say to the police about Lisa in his apartment, though: "Officer! I wish to report I caught the Princess of Monaco rummaging through my underwear drawer!"
Thought I heard in another video you lived in the lower mainland area of Vancouver and if that's right, you'd be interested to know that Raymond Burr is from New Westminster, BC.
Grace Kelly married Prince Ranier of Monaco and became Princess Grace.
Wow finally someone react to this great movie.I love Jimmy Stewart. You should also see other Jimmy Stewart movie like Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
Lots of reactors do. Go check out. Shan Watches Movies, Jojusil, A Hatful of Reactions, to name a few. Some are going to get to it like Brandon Likes Movies, Popcorn In Bed, and Ashleigh Burton
If you want a dark comedy take on this idea then checkout "The Burbs" starring Tom Hanks
RolyPolyOllie has a feature in his speaking manner that makes him sound just a little like Mike Myer's ''Doctor Evil'' character. 🙂
Excellent reactions and reviews of this and Rope. I love that a lot of younger people are reacting to Hitchcock's films, and finding they still hold up as well or better than many current films. You are spot on in many of your observations.
I think if you want to sneak in more Hitch for October, Psycho and The Birds would be good candidates as both easily fit into the horror genre, yet have so much more psychological meat to them than your typical Friday the 13th teenage slasher clone. I also STRONGLY recommend Vertigo, one of the great films of all time. Anyway, looking forward to more of your content.
Psycho is coming next week to the channel :)
@@RolyPolyOllieReactions Looking forward to it!!!
No air conditioning that's why windows are open
You should probably do a James Stewart season if you don't know who he is. One of the greatest actors in American cinema. ever.
Their windows are open and they're sleeping outside because of the heat.
The windows are open because it's so hot. That's why people are sleeping on their fire escapes.
Might want to check out psycho for spooky season also check out vertigo and frenzy all so different sides to Hitchcock cool channel thanks
Psycho is coming for spooky season!
@@RolyPolyOllieReactions and do not forget The Birds (1963)! Both Psycho and The Birds are perfect for spooky season! 😊
~ They’re not closing the windows because this was before air conditioners made that feasible on hot days ~
I thought if Thorwald had killed his wife, he would have buried her as far away as possible to avoid any chance of suspicion.
~ Her $1100 dress would cost over $10,000 in today’s money!
There's no way he could have buried his wife's body in that narrow patch in the garden without anyone seeing him.
Bro your a god damn treasure, bless you, keep being you my guy
Nice! My favorite Hitchcock movie; not his best one, but definitely among the bunch of them. You should definitely venture further into the Master of Suspense's work.
The 1950s were Hitchcock's golden age
An amazing Movie,but you must react to the others greatest Hitchcock's Films : Vertigo , North by northwest , Psycho , The birds , The man who know to much, The lady vanished,
it was the head.
blessings!
Watching your youthful and ignorant reactions was very funny! However if you didn't talk so much about not understanding you might hear the dialogue that would answer your question about the hatbox. But there is something very sad. You can't imagine a world without air conditioning, where it is safe to leave windows open, doors unlocked, etc. You can't imagine anything but the world you know.
Don't forget that us fogies from the older generation can't imagine life before TV, a family car, frozen food, thermostatically-controlled home furnaces or electricity in every home.
Dogs dig in gardens.
He sleeps outside due to the fact it is hot.
Watch the snl rear window parody. Hilarious!
Or that episode of The Simpsons where Homer thinks Flanders has killed Mrs. Flanders.
why window open summer it hot how person kept cool back in in day