'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic (Video 2000)

Director:

Laurent Bouzereau

Writer:

Laurent Bouzereau

Stars:

Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Bumstead, Herbert Coleman

Cast

Credited cast:
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself
Henry Bumstead	...	Himself
Herbert Coleman	...	Himself
Georgine Darcy	...	Herself
C.O. Erickson	...	Himself
Curtis Hanson	...	Himself
Robert A. Harris	...	Himself
Alfred Hitchcock	...	Himself (archive footage)
Patricia Hitchcock	...	Herself
James C. Katz	...	Himself
Grace Kelly	...	(archive footage)
Thelma Ritter	...	Stella (archive footage)
Leonard J. South	...	Himself
Herb Steinberg	...	Himself
James Stewart	...	(archive footage)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

hitchcock | film making | film restoration | making of | apartment | 

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

56 min

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This documentary is featured on the 2001 DVD release for Rear Window.

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Connections

References Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

User Reviews

Good retrospective documentary

Directed by the greatest film-related documentary maker of all time, faeturing a wealth of new and old footage chronicling the making and reflections of REAR WINDOW, this is a must-see for all fans (it is included on the R2 Special Edition, and -- I assume -- on the R1 as well).

It even features some old interview snippets with Alfred Hitchcock, which -- to be honest -- I'd never seen before. (I'd never seen any interviews with Hitchcock.)

All in all, interesting and amusing -- not "great" but very good and worth renting the DVD for. If you haven't seen the movie in a long time, you NEED to see it with the new digital restoration transfer. The documentary is the cherry on top.

4.5/5