Years later, Jimmy Stewart said Grace Kelly was the most natural actress he ever worked with. After she became "Princess Grace of Monaco", she never attended any Hollywood functions...EXCEPT when Stewart receive the Lifetime achievement award...she sat next to him at the ceremony not long before her death.
@@steelers6titles He was engaged to Olivia De Havilland for a while, but she broke it off, because she didn’t want to come third in his affections. She said she didn’t mind coming second to his mother, but he was in love with Margaret Sullavan, his co-star from “The Shop Around the Corner” and Olivia didn’t want to come third to her. Jimmy Stewart also had an affair with Marlene Dietrich when they were in “Destry Rides Again,” and she ended up having an abortion for him.
I'm genuinely impressed that you would watch something like Rear Window.. there are a lot of movies out there worth watching that are not at all recent.. seriously well done ladies. 👏🏻👏🏻
"The Grapes Of Wrath" (1940) is one hell of a movie, made from the classic American novel by John Steinbeck, it follows the Joad family, and gives a stark picture of The Great Depression in the Southwest of America during the 1930's.
@@deckofcards87 Another great one is LIFEBOAT (1944). That one isn’t talked about enough and it’s excellent. Also, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) is wonderful.
"North by Northwest", another Hitchcock film, has always been one of my favorite movies. Hopefully you'll look into it soon. American Film Institute: Ranked 40th on the list of greatest American films, 4th on the list of greatest thrills, and 7th on the list of top 10 mysteries. Two more movies that don't get the recognition they deserve (don't you love it when you screen movies first then others copy you?): The Majestic Blast From the Past
Absolutely love this movie. One of the best parts of this movie is that there is no actual soundtrack. The "soundtrack" is the ambient noise of the neighborhood. This is seriously one of my favorite Hitchcock films. Right up there with "Vertigo", "North by Northwest" and "Psycho". Also, another Grace Kelly movie that everybody should watch is "To Catch a Thief". Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, how can you go wrong with that?
Hitchcock had several memorable movies, rear window being one of the greatest. And Kelly showed how strong of an actor, she was. We lost her early in her life. But she shined while here. And that nurse ... oh my goodness.
This was written by Cornell Woolrich, who wrote a LOT of things like this as short stories and novels. Radio dramas from the 30's and 40's featured his adaptations all the time. For the one location suspense movie, try "Rope." The joke about the landlord inspiring the composer every month wasn't dirty. It was his rent being due.
Hitchcock used Jimmy Stewart in a lot of movies. He was also the star of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with Doris Day, "Vertigo" with Kim Novak, and one I highly recommend, "Rope". "Rope" is well known in cinematic circles for the very clever way in which it was filmed. It's notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched-together long takes. Farley Granger also stars in "Rope" and is in another really great Hitchcock film called "Strangers on a Train." If you like the Hitchcock you've seen so far you need to continue down this rabbit hole. You won't be disappointed. Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Tippi Hedron ("The Birds"), Kim Novak... hmm, I'm sensing a pattern here.
Finally watched this film today, and your reaction of The Birds got me in a Hitchcock mood :) I loved the way the movie was shot, and kept you interested. As the viewer, you're curious about the goings on in the apartment complex and was the same with the characters. I think it's the 1st film I've seen with Grace Kelly. I'd put this 2nd behind Psycho. I need to check out more of his films. Enjoyed your reaction to this :)
Kudos to Michelle for predicting the second broken leg and to Natalie for the best line, ‘And she does it all in heels’ (I’m paraphrasing). Credit for the idea goes to Cornell Woolrich, who wrote the original novelette of the same name. He was one of the inventors of noir and had more screen adaptations of his stories than any other author (96), including Deadline at Dawn (1946), The Window (1949), No Man of Her Own (1950, with Barbara Stanwyck), and more than 20 other films, as well as many TV productions, such as episodes on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I am a fan of Hitchcock’s earlier movies: The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Foreign Correspondent, and especially Suspicion. One of my favorites, highly regarded by critics, has yet to be watched by any reactor: Lifeboat (1944), a war movie set entirely on a lifeboat and featuring a star-studded cast. Among his later movies, my favorites are Notorious and North by Northwest.
If you'd like to see another James Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock collaboration, the movie The Man Who Knew Too Much is really a good one. Jimmy Stewart plays a doctor, Doris Day plays his wife in a rare dramatic role (and, yes, she sings!). I won't tell you any more except there's amazing suspense, international intrigue and a race against time to foil ... well, you'll get the idea. It's a movie of distinction because this was a remake of Hitchcock's 1934 movie of the same title when he was still in England. It'll knock your socks off! It was also made after Rear Window.
Hitchcock was a genius. He had lots and lots of masterpieces. Some other good ones are "North By Northwest," "Vertigo," "Strangers on a Train," "Marnie," "Suspicion," and "The Lady Vanishes."
I'm nearly 75 and as a kid lived in St Louis. Lots of folks with limited incomes lived in these kind of old apartment buildings. This was before the spread to the suburbs and the "apartment complexes." --- No we didn't have a/c and left our windows open, but we did have the big metal fire escapes to play on.
@@laurelg9586 I remember while lying in bed at night that I was acutely aware of any little breeze that happened to blow through the window. The only fan was in the grown ups room.
I've been a Hitchcock fan since before there were videotapes; you had to hope the movie was on TV at some point in order to see them! My favorite is "Vertigo," which also stars Jimmy Stewart. It's a bit of a twisted psychological portrait, but it would be a crime to say more. You can't go wrong with almost any Hitchcock from the 1950s, but if you're willing to do a deep-dive, "Rebecca" was a 1940 Best Picture winner...Also love "Suspicion" (1941), "Spellbound" (1945) and "Strangers on a Train" (1951) - each of these films is unforgettable! If you ever watch "Suspicion," I promise to fill you in on the true ending of the movie.
Brilliant classic with stunning performances from Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly! As for Hitchcock's influence on television you are perhaps not aware ladies, that he had an anthology show, 'Alfred Hitchcock presents' that was on tv for a decade? Also for fun with Jimmy Stewart and cats, may I suggest you two watch 'Bell, Book, and Candle' from 1958 with Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, if you have not already seen it. Which if I remember correctly, the movie and the play it was based on spawned the television show 'BeWitched' with Elizabeth Montgomery. Another excellent review ladies, enjoyed watching you two discover this one!
Grace Kelly is a timeless class act. I liked Jimmy Stewart as well. Raymond Burr, the bad guy went on to become Perry Mason, the first of the courtroom TV attorneys. My Great Grandmother loved him in that role. I got to see this in the theater a couple of weeks ago and it was crowded. Timeless classic. Thanks Michelle and Natalie especially for your prayers for my mother!
If this film was made today with a cast of this caliber, the budget goes over $100 million😂😂. In all seriousness it’s this movie, Psycho, and Vertigo that are my favorite Hitchcock films.
Yes, I remember Burr in the American version of the first Godzilla movie. He always had a weight problem but Hitchcock wanted him a bit heavier, wearing the glasses and gray in his hair. At the time, Hitchcock had a falling out with David O. Selznick (who among other things, was the producer for the 1939 blockbuster Gone With The Wind), so he had Burr made up to look like Selznick. (And he does quite closely, if you look at a photo of Selznick.)
Always liked the fact that Rear Window was a movie about a guy playing detective and solving a murder, while confined to a wheel chair. Then years later Raymond Burr would star in a television show called 'Ironside'. A show about a police detective confined to a wheel chair who solved murders. 😂
RE: Other great Jimmy Stewart roles; See also "Harvey" (1950), starring Stewart as an eccentric "everyman" who lives in small-town America with an invisible friend he calls Harvey.
The genius of Rear Window is that its about characters that are "voyeurs" as they watch the goings on in the apt complex, AND WE THE AUDIENCE BECOME VOYEURS AS WELL OF BOTH THE MURDER MYSTERY AND OF JEFF AND LISA. PURE GENIUS.
@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time Well, it is a movie, like an early "reality show" movie, but back then I imagine people were just used to a more open, less private society.
Right, and if you are staring out of your window you are not legally being a "peeping Tom", especially if other people around you do not close their windows/doors, etc. In apartment buildings with no AC in the past this was actually very common behavior. In the days before owning a television was commonplace, watching your neighbors was great entertainment.
The movie came out at a time when a new medium TELEVISION was just really taking off. The movie was also a study in watching each smaller screen "program" and what it said about our own lives being voyeurs in our own homes, which had never been possible before that time.
Great reaction ladies, i'm subscribing. This is my third favourite Hitchcock after Psycho and Frenzy. Others i recommend obviously Frenzy, North By Northwest, Rope, Dial M For Murder, The Birds, Strangers On A Train The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Family Plot. Plenty of other great ones, but they are amongst my favourites.
When my grandma lived in the Bronx N. Y. and I would go visit her and my grandfather in the summer, you would sleep on the fire escape because it was cooler out there .
I like James Stewart and, since you have seen already Its a Wonderful Life, I must recommend you to watch Harvey (1950). Grace Kelly was so so sweetly beautiful. She is too in Alfred Hitchcock's Cath a Thief (1955) with Cary Grant. Whenever I'm asked what my favorite Hitchcock movie is, I say the same thing: one that's not by Hitchcock. Because it is a film in its style, very close to North by Northwest, and with the same leading actor. The film is Charade, by Stanley Donnen, with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Mathau, James Coburn and George Kennedy. A great cast. And with music by the great Henry Mancini (composer of the Pink Panther theme). Really, very good suspense movie.
Having been photographed with such equipment often in my childhood, I like to inform younger viewers that the eyes do NOT recover from those flash bulbs as quickly as Thorwald's did!
My favorite HItchcock movie is The Rope where the dead body is in the room through the whole movie and almost all scenes are shot in the one room with people coming in and out. The tension just builds and builds.
2:26 Natalie’s reaction to the helicopter is the one of someone who suddenly realizes technology was more advanced in the 50s than she thought. That happened to me too, when I discovered Hitchcock, the way that he depicts the life inside the big metropolitan cities is absolutely fascinating. Cities full of modernity, movement, people, color, transportation, technological innovations, etc.
Hi Michelle & Natalie, it`s always great to see more people exploring the Classics of Yesteryear, B/W or Colour. I discovered many wonderful films from as far back as the `30`s & `40`s. I`m glad you both enjoyed it so much. :)
I saw this movie in the theater about 40 years ago. On the big screen the images out the window are more prominent, making the movie more enthralling. Of course, Alfred Hitchcock made an appearance in this film. He was the guy winding the clock on the mantle in the musician's apartment.
Watch TO CATCH A THIEF with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. It was film in the south of France, cannes, Nice, Monaco. During filming Kelly met the Prince, whom she would maryy 2 years later. In the picnic scene, which overlooks Monaco, her future palace is just beyond the ridge. Watch for Hitchcock's cameos. In several films he appears for a few seconds. It is a sport of sorts. Similar to a short game of Where's Waldo.
There is a movie called Hichcock, Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren interesting on the making of Phycho. worth watching. Hope you don't mind 2 reactions. favorite movie, most of his work.
Awesome movie! My favorite Hitchcock and also my favorite Stewart flick! Top it off with Grace Kelly, FTW! Special note: The movie MIMIC 3 is effectively an adaptation of this!
Raymond Burr, the white haired bad guy, became a big star of TV shortly afterwards. He played lawyer Perry Mason. The series ran from 1957 to 1966 and made Burr a star. He then played a wheelchair bound detective, Ironside, which ran on NBC from 1967 to 1975.
She , Grace Kelly, made a few movies like High Noon and others. Then , she was swept off her feet by Prince Raner of Monico and became princess of Monico. She passed away in 1982 . Beautiful woman.
Don't forget, that was a time period where certain men stayed in the closet, pretended they liked the female persuasion, and even had a girlfriend for appearance sake. Notice the scene where he asked for the non sexual relationship to remain "status quo". A real life example in that time period would be Rock Hudson.
@@bhamdodger Yeah, every relationship has compromises. Jeff has lived his life pursuing adventure and differences in the worst parts of the world. He should absolutely pull away from a profession he cannot pursue for long, and that friction is a huge part of what's making him push her away.
Since you asked, my favourite Hitchcock movies are 1935’s The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1938’s The Lady Vanishes, 1946’s Notorious, Rear Window, and his final movie, 1976’s Family Plot. I would love you guys to react to all of them, but if I had to choose only one, it would be Notorious. I’m sure you both would love it!
A curious photographer w/ a learned, focused eye can't help but look out and see what's within his visual range when he's laid up. Thanks for uploading this one, ladies! One of my fave films!
The musician is played by Ross Bagdasarian, who wrote the songs "Witch Doctor" and "One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater" and created Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Yes, a classic! 😀 First time I saw this, I just couldn’t figure how Jeff would refuse Lisa…what a putz! To find a woman like that….oooh boy, better than owning a gold mine. (Do more classics please 😁)
The movie Suburbia and the horror comedy FRIGHT NIGHT used heavily from this Hitchcock formula of spying on your neighbor,a murder,nobody believes you,the killer sees you great movie
I seriously love it that so many young reactors are checking out older films. I'm an older guy (teenager in the 1970s), these things were so undervalued that the broadcast rights fees for them were so cheap that it was how the few TV stations that broadcast for 24hrs a day stayed on the air overnight before those stupid "infomercials" were invented. I eventually ended up working in TV, ended up at Turner Broadcasting, it was great to see these films again on TCM! (My broadcast crew at Cartoon Network were also responsible for maintaining TCM back in the videotape days) Hmm..more Hitchcock. The original UK 1930s version of "The Thirty Nine Steps", and his "North by Northwest".
Nobody shuts their window because it's too hot. This is before the widespread use of air conditioning. That's indeed the way those casts used to be. I remember my cousin stayed with us when she broke her leg, and it was the same thing. "He gets it from his landlady once a month" simply means that he has to pay the rent. By the way those flashes were indeed very bright and blinging.
This is his best. Some will say Vertigo. Hell, some will quote any one of a half dozen or more of them as his best. And they'd all be right from their point of view. But this one is mine. Rear Window, Vertigo, Rope, Psycho, North By Northwest are top tier, with Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers On a Train not far behind. I don't personally like 'The Birds', but it is another of his really big movies. And they're all worth a watch.
Hitchcock never made bad films. Each entry in his filmography always had something interesting and/or disturbing going on. In this case, you have both. His camera angles, dialog, choice of actors, sets, etc. were always top notch, since he was a perfectionist. It's great that you both decided to watch a classic movie like this. Keep going and finally watch "The Forbidden Planet". :)
Super classic movie. The plot was based on the short story "It Had to be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich, originally published in the pulp magazine Dime Detective in 1942, though I think Hitchcock did a really good job presenting and expanding the setting with the other characters and neighbors relative to the source material.
Great movie. After you see a few Hitchcock movies like Vertigo , Psycho and North By Northwest you should see Mel Brooks movie "High Anxiety" . a spoof on Hitchcock movies. Also another great suspense movie which is like Hitchcock movie but is not his movie is ""Charade" . Fyi Grace Kelly Rip who plays Jimmy Stewart girlfriend is a real life princess of Monaco. Also Hitchcock makes a cameo in the movie. He is the bald guy in the room with Piano Man. You should see other Jimmy Stewart Rip movies : Vertigo , The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, Harvey and Mr Smith Goest to Washington , .
My Grandad who lived in inner city Chicago in the 40s and 50s said that folks weren't particularly as concerned with privacy in those days as we are now. Also, there's a heatwave in NY during the few days the film takes place so everyone has ALL of their windows open. No AC, of course. And James Stewart's character is bored out of his mind... It's really a brilliantly conceived little premise for a thriller, and Hitchcock invented many. The only part that's not convincing is that the killer doesn't once notice Jimmy Stewart sitting is his apartment staring at him Lol. But... that's movie logic, you just have to suspend disbelief.
You should view Hitchcock's THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY. A dark comedy it was Shirley McClain's first film. Also stars John Forsythe and from Leave it to Beaver a very, very young Jerry Mathers. Beautiful location and lots of fun. Often overlooked.
I almost fell off my chair when Michelle said “the spinning thing maybe…” I come from that time of rotary dial telephones, so it just struck me as funny! We used to call that “dialing” the phone. My, oh my, I’m gettin’ old… 🤣🤣🤣
yea that was a funny comment by NAT. I stil recall my Parent's home 6 digit ph number and of course when you had to dial a ph # in another town or state u THEN had to add the area code which LARS was doing
Another older movie that you have to watch is 12 Angry Men from 1957. Courtroom drama with one of the best written scripts ever in my opinion. It has to be because 98% of the movie takes place in a single room. Love seeing some of the older movies getting some love. There is a movie from 2007 called Disturbia with Shia LaBeouf, that I believe probably took some inspiration from this movie.
Before in home air-conditioning many houses had sleeping porches and many large cities had what was called a boulevard which was a divided road with a tree shaded grassy area between. during the hot months families would move cots and cooking grills into the green area, cook and eat dinner then sleep on cots under the stars.
Key Largo is OK, but Bogey and Bacall were better as Steve and Slim in To Have and Have Not. Of course, Bogey at his best is Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, but he might be most accessible to today's reactors in color in The African Queen.
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You should definitely watch "To Catch a Thief" for more Grace Kelly and Hitchcock , Great Film
Thank you both for giving Hitch another try. This is one of my favorite films. All one set, great cast, and fun characters. If you'd like to give Hitch another effort please try To Catch A Thief, North By Northwest, The Birds, and Dial M For Murder. Great reaction.
You commented more than once that you didn't understand why everybody had their windows open. This was a classic old courtyard apartment building as you would find it in a city back then. 1954 nobody had central AC and you didn't see a single window unit. It was in the 90's in the evening so everyone would have every window open to catch any breeze at all to alleviate the heat. Also the couple pulling their bedding onto the balcony was another common way to beat the heat. Did you ever notice that southern homes had second floor balconies that wrapped all the way around the house? It was common practice for whole families to sleep outside before AC appeared. There was something called swamp air cooling and I had that in an old depression era house in Dallas at one time. It was a very large unit with a big tray full of water (and chlorine to keep bacteria down) that was pumped up and drizzled down over interwoven cane. It evaporatively cooled the air and fans blew this lightly cooled air into the house.
Thanks ladies, great movie, grace kelly ( princess grace) looked gorgeous in it , this was her second hitchcock movie, dail m for murder , they made a remake with gweneth palthrow , viggo morthenson and Micheal Oh and to cathch a thief , another hitchcock , high noon was a great early hit , a western
Love this movie! They did a spoof in an episode of The Simpsons, Bart Of Darkness, where Bart, having broken his leg while trying to jump in the pool, ends up in a cast, and uses a telescope to spy on his neighbors, until he thinks Ned Flanders killed his wife. He tries telling Lisa, who doesn't believe him, until she notices Flanders bury something in the backyard.
The murderer is Raymond Burr, best known for “Perry Mason” and “Ironsides”. Also, Jimmy Stewart flew B24 Liberators over Germany in WW2 and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. You might check out “Harvey”, an obscure little film starring Stewart. Very Funny.
Love this movie! Such a classic, the suspense definitely keeps you on your toes. Disturbia (2007) and The Ring (2002) have references to this film. Grace Kelly is a treasure, to catch a thief (1955) is my favorite film with her. Great reaction as always, ladies!
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@@alfroml.a.5404psycho from the 60s is the best😊
@FOLE Did you ever see that episode of PSYCH where they did the “homage” to Alfred Hitchcock movies ❓
@@T-Rex_007 I watched that show so I must have!
Years later, Jimmy Stewart said Grace Kelly was the most natural actress he ever worked with. After she became "Princess Grace of Monaco", she never attended any Hollywood functions...EXCEPT when Stewart receive the Lifetime achievement award...she sat next to him at the ceremony not long before her death.
Stewart was one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors for years, until he married Gloria.
@@steelers6titles ... and Grace Kelly apparently slept with every one of her partners in the movies.
@@steelers6titles He was engaged to Olivia De Havilland for a while, but she broke it off, because she didn’t want to come third in his affections. She said she didn’t mind coming second to his mother, but he was in love with Margaret Sullavan, his co-star from “The Shop Around the Corner” and Olivia didn’t want to come third to her.
Jimmy Stewart also had an affair with Marlene Dietrich when they were in “Destry Rides Again,” and she ended up having an abortion for him.
I'm genuinely impressed that you would watch something like Rear Window.. there are a lot of movies out there worth watching that are not at all recent.. seriously well done ladies. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Thank you!!
@@natalieRGrace I'm still watching.. lol
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment I'm still watching.. lol
"The Grapes Of Wrath" (1940) is one hell of a movie, made from the classic American novel by John Steinbeck, it follows the Joad family, and gives a stark picture of The Great Depression in the Southwest of America during the 1930's.
My all time favorite actor, Jimmy Stewart. He also joined the Army during WW2 and flew bombing missions over Europe. A real war hero.
JS achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force.
My favorite Hitchcock movie is NOTORIOUS (1946) with Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains. Cinematic perfection.
"North by Northwest" is another.
🙌 Yes! They should definitely react to Notorious!
Notorious and Vertigo are my two personal favorites. Both benefit from repeated viewings, too.
@@deckofcards87 Another great one is LIFEBOAT (1944). That one isn’t talked about enough and it’s excellent. Also, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) is wonderful.
One of the most beautiful ladies on film.
A favorite classic of mine.
Beyond the technical, the banter, charisma & dialog is great. Favorite Hitch film
Dial M for murder is another Alfred Hitchcock great suspense filled movie.
Of course Pyscho it's a classic.
"North by Northwest", another Hitchcock film, has always been one of my favorite movies. Hopefully you'll look into it soon.
American Film Institute: Ranked 40th on the list of greatest American films, 4th on the list of greatest thrills, and 7th on the list of top 10 mysteries.
Two more movies that don't get the recognition they deserve (don't you love it when you screen movies first then others copy you?):
The Majestic
Blast From the Past
Thelma Ritter, playing Stella, was always a comedic hoot no matter what movie she was in.
I always love your actions, your the best. I also am impressed the way you both talk without cursing as many do.
Thank you so much!
Grace Kelly dance on air! One of the most beautiful Irish actresses
Absolutely love this movie. One of the best parts of this movie is that there is no actual soundtrack. The "soundtrack" is the ambient noise of the neighborhood. This is seriously one of my favorite Hitchcock films. Right up there with "Vertigo", "North by Northwest" and "Psycho".
Also, another Grace Kelly movie that everybody should watch is "To Catch a Thief". Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, how can you go wrong with that?
Thanks!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment That is also a Hitchcock film.
Hitchcock made his cameo appearance at the beginning in the apartment with the piano for about 3 seconds. He always did that in his movies
Hitchcock had several memorable movies, rear window being one of the greatest. And Kelly showed how strong of an actor, she was. We lost her early in her life. But she shined while here. And that nurse ... oh my goodness.
Jimmy Stewart was a war hero too. Great guy.
This was written by Cornell Woolrich, who wrote a LOT of things like this as short stories and novels. Radio dramas from the 30's and 40's featured his adaptations all the time.
For the one location suspense movie, try "Rope."
The joke about the landlord inspiring the composer every month wasn't dirty. It was his rent being due.
Hitchcock used Jimmy Stewart in a lot of movies. He was also the star of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with Doris Day, "Vertigo" with Kim Novak, and one I highly recommend, "Rope". "Rope" is well known in cinematic circles for the very clever way in which it was filmed. It's notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched-together long takes. Farley Granger also stars in "Rope" and is in another really great Hitchcock film called "Strangers on a Train." If you like the Hitchcock you've seen so far you need to continue down this rabbit hole. You won't be disappointed. Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Tippi Hedron ("The Birds"), Kim Novak... hmm, I'm sensing a pattern here.
Jimmy Stewart was actually a B- Seventeen bomber pilo in WW2. True!
Finally watched this film today, and your reaction of The Birds got me in a Hitchcock mood :) I loved the way the movie was shot, and kept you interested. As the viewer, you're curious about the goings on in the apartment complex and was the same with the characters. I think it's the 1st film I've seen with Grace Kelly. I'd put this 2nd behind Psycho. I need to check out more of his films. Enjoyed your reaction to this :)
20th Century iconic film. One of Hitchcock's best.
Remember he's an investigative journalist, so he's natural curious about people and stories.
Absolutely fantastic movie!
Another great Grace Kelley movie is "To Catch a Thief" with Carey Grant.
Thanks!
One of my favorites, not as twisty as most Hitch flix but so fun and stylish. Those two might be the most beautiful humans ever paired on screen?
Kudos to Michelle for predicting the second broken leg and to Natalie for the best line, ‘And she does it all in heels’ (I’m paraphrasing).
Credit for the idea goes to Cornell Woolrich, who wrote the original novelette of the same name. He was one of the inventors of noir and had more screen adaptations of his stories than any other author (96), including Deadline at Dawn (1946), The Window (1949), No Man of Her Own (1950, with Barbara Stanwyck), and more than 20 other films, as well as many TV productions, such as episodes on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
I am a fan of Hitchcock’s earlier movies: The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Foreign Correspondent, and especially Suspicion. One of my favorites, highly regarded by critics, has yet to be watched by any reactor: Lifeboat (1944), a war movie set entirely on a lifeboat and featuring a star-studded cast. Among his later movies, my favorites are Notorious and North by Northwest.
A great Hitchcock film (it was nominated for an Oscar) that is constantly overlooked is "Foreign Correspondent" with Joel McCrea from 1940.
I agree. That and Sabetour are 2 of the greatest "early ones".
I love that movie!! I’ve watched foreign correspondent multiple times!!
This movie is at the top of the list for me. The Birds is a great movie but scared me when I saw it as a kid.
If you'd like to see another James Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock collaboration, the movie The Man Who Knew Too Much is really a good one. Jimmy Stewart plays a doctor, Doris Day plays his wife in a rare dramatic role (and, yes, she sings!). I won't tell you any more except there's amazing suspense, international intrigue and a race against time to foil ... well, you'll get the idea. It's a movie of distinction because this was a remake of Hitchcock's 1934 movie of the same title when he was still in England. It'll knock your socks off! It was also made after Rear Window.
Hitchcock was a genius. He had lots and lots of masterpieces. Some other good ones are "North By Northwest," "Vertigo," "Strangers on a Train," "Marnie," "Suspicion," and "The Lady Vanishes."
My favorite of his is Rope... rarely hear it mentioned though
@@icetech6 Yes, it is good, and it has some interesting technical features, such as the fact that the whole movie is one scene.
I'm nearly 75 and as a kid lived in St Louis. Lots of folks with limited incomes lived in these kind of old apartment buildings. This was before the spread to the suburbs and the "apartment complexes." --- No we didn't have a/c and left our windows open, but we did have the big metal fire escapes to play on.
Definitely pre-A/C...I lived on top floor of 5 story walk up. no fans, either. You just lived through it! School didnt have it either and we survived!
@@laurelg9586 I remember while lying in bed at night that I was acutely aware of any little breeze that happened to blow through the window. The only fan was in the grown ups room.
@@jeffreiland7463 yes, exactly!
I've been a Hitchcock fan since before there were videotapes; you had to hope the movie was on TV at some point in order to see them! My favorite is "Vertigo," which also stars Jimmy Stewart. It's a bit of a twisted psychological portrait, but it would be a crime to say more. You can't go wrong with almost any Hitchcock from the 1950s, but if you're willing to do a deep-dive, "Rebecca" was a 1940 Best Picture winner...Also love "Suspicion" (1941), "Spellbound" (1945) and "Strangers on a Train" (1951) - each of these films is unforgettable! If you ever watch "Suspicion," I promise to fill you in on the true ending of the movie.
Brilliant classic with stunning performances from Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly! As for Hitchcock's influence on television you are perhaps not aware ladies, that he had an anthology show, 'Alfred Hitchcock presents' that was on tv for a decade? Also for fun with Jimmy Stewart and cats, may I suggest you two watch 'Bell, Book, and Candle' from 1958 with Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, if you have not already seen it. Which if I remember correctly, the movie and the play it was based on spawned the television show 'BeWitched' with Elizabeth Montgomery. Another excellent review ladies, enjoyed watching you two discover this one!
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Grace Kelly is a timeless class act. I liked Jimmy Stewart as well. Raymond Burr, the bad guy went on to become Perry Mason, the first of the courtroom TV attorneys. My Great Grandmother loved him in that role. I got to see this in the theater a couple of weeks ago and it was crowded. Timeless classic. Thanks Michelle and Natalie especially for your prayers for my mother!
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If this film was made today with a cast of this caliber, the budget goes over $100 million😂😂. In all seriousness it’s this movie, Psycho, and Vertigo that are my favorite Hitchcock films.
Yes, I remember Burr in the American version of the first Godzilla movie. He always had a weight problem but Hitchcock wanted him a bit heavier, wearing the glasses and gray in his hair. At the time, Hitchcock had a falling out with David O. Selznick (who among other things, was the producer for the 1939 blockbuster Gone With The Wind), so he had Burr made up to look like Selznick. (And he does quite closely, if you look at a photo of Selznick.)
Always liked the fact that Rear Window was a movie about a guy playing detective and solving a murder, while confined to a wheel chair. Then years later Raymond Burr would star in a television show called 'Ironside'. A show about a police detective confined to a wheel chair who solved murders. 😂
R.I.P. Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco.✌️❤️🙏🙏🙏
You need to watch Hitchcock's 1958 film "Vertigo" also starring James Stewart.
RE: Other great Jimmy Stewart roles; See also "Harvey" (1950), starring Stewart as an eccentric "everyman" who lives in small-town America with an invisible friend he calls Harvey.
Love you guys. Another good Jimmy Stewart movie is "The Man Who Sot Liberty Valance" also, stars John Wayne and Lee Marvin.
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The women taking care of him is Thelma Ritter. She made a lot of movies back in the day.
The genius of Rear Window is that its about characters that are "voyeurs" as they watch the goings on in the apt complex, AND WE THE AUDIENCE BECOME VOYEURS AS WELL OF BOTH THE MURDER MYSTERY AND OF JEFF AND LISA. PURE GENIUS.
Total lack of self awareness from the people on the other side of the courtyard, or maybe they were giving it to their exhibitionist tendencies?
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Well, it is a movie, like an early "reality show" movie, but back then I imagine people were just used to a more open, less private society.
Right, and if you are staring out of your window you are not legally being a "peeping Tom", especially if other people around you do not close their windows/doors, etc. In apartment buildings with no AC in the past this was actually very common behavior. In the days before owning a television was commonplace, watching your neighbors was great entertainment.
The movie came out at a time when a new medium TELEVISION was just really taking off. The movie was also a study in watching each smaller screen "program" and what it said about our own lives being voyeurs in our own homes, which had never been possible before that time.
Glad you guys are exploring Hitchcock ! Some more great ones to check out are Notorious (1946), Rebecca ( 1940), The Birds (1963) and Vertigo (1958).
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Great reaction ladies, i'm subscribing. This is my third favourite Hitchcock after Psycho and Frenzy. Others i recommend obviously Frenzy, North By Northwest, Rope, Dial M For Murder, The Birds, Strangers On A Train The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Family Plot. Plenty of other great ones, but they are amongst my favourites.
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When my grandma lived in the Bronx N. Y. and I would go visit her and my grandfather in the summer, you would sleep on the fire escape because it was cooler out there .
No air conditioning back then.
I like James Stewart and, since you have seen already Its a Wonderful Life, I must recommend you to watch Harvey (1950). Grace Kelly was so so sweetly beautiful. She is too in Alfred Hitchcock's Cath a Thief (1955) with Cary Grant.
Whenever I'm asked what my favorite Hitchcock movie is, I say the same thing: one that's not by Hitchcock. Because it is a film in its style, very close to North by Northwest, and with the same leading actor. The film is Charade, by Stanley Donnen, with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Mathau, James Coburn and George Kennedy. A great cast. And with music by the great Henry Mancini (composer of the Pink Panther theme). Really, very good suspense movie.
Having been photographed with such equipment often in my childhood, I like to inform younger viewers that the eyes do NOT recover from those flash bulbs as quickly as Thorwald's did!
My favorite HItchcock movie is The Rope where the dead body is in the room through the whole movie and almost all scenes are shot in the one room with people coming in and out. The tension just builds and builds.
2:26 Natalie’s reaction to the helicopter is the one of someone who suddenly realizes technology was more advanced in the 50s than she thought. That happened to me too, when I discovered Hitchcock, the way that he depicts the life inside the big metropolitan cities is absolutely fascinating. Cities full of modernity, movement, people, color, transportation, technological innovations, etc.
Helicopters (and jet aircraft) were used in the Korean War 1950-1953.
Hi Michelle & Natalie, it`s always great to see more people exploring the Classics of Yesteryear, B/W or Colour. I discovered many wonderful films from as far back as the `30`s & `40`s. I`m glad you both enjoyed it so much. :)
Dial M for Murder is my favorite Hitchcock movie. It also stars Grace Kelly.
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Jimmy Stewart was a national treasure.
I saw this movie in the theater about 40 years ago. On the big screen the images out the window are more prominent, making the movie more enthralling. Of course, Alfred Hitchcock made an appearance in this film. He was the guy winding the clock on the mantle in the musician's apartment.
Watch TO CATCH A THIEF with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. It was film in the south of France, cannes, Nice, Monaco. During filming Kelly met the Prince, whom she would maryy 2 years later. In the picnic scene, which overlooks Monaco, her future palace is just beyond the ridge.
Watch for Hitchcock's cameos. In several films he appears for a few seconds. It is a sport of sorts. Similar to a short game of Where's Waldo.
There is a movie called Hichcock, Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren interesting on the making of Phycho. worth watching. Hope you don't mind 2 reactions. favorite movie, most of his work.
That sounds interesting!
Awesome movie! My favorite Hitchcock and also my favorite Stewart flick! Top it off with Grace Kelly, FTW!
Special note: The movie MIMIC 3 is effectively an adaptation of this!
One that many people don’t think of for Alfred Hitchcock is the movie Rope. Probably my favorite of his outside of Psycho.
This is one of my all time favorite oldies, watched it so many times since a kid.
Raymond Burr, the white haired bad guy, became a big star of TV shortly afterwards. He played lawyer Perry Mason. The series ran from 1957 to 1966 and made Burr a star. He then played a wheelchair bound detective, Ironside, which ran on NBC from 1967 to 1975.
She , Grace Kelly, made a few movies like High Noon and others. Then , she was swept off her feet by Prince Raner of Monico and became princess of Monico. She passed away in 1982 . Beautiful woman.
You should watch more James Stewart he's my favourite old Hollywood actor he could do comedy as well as dead serious great reaction ladies anyway.
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Also, in his movies, he always shows up. But, it's just for a second and you really have to pay attention. Love this guys movies.
I like that you don't blur out the movie like other channels. 👍
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is that any man would reject Grace Kelly.
Exactly!! He won’t stay in NY for her!
Don't forget, that was a time period where certain men stayed in the closet, pretended they liked the female persuasion, and even had a girlfriend for appearance sake. Notice the scene where he asked for the non sexual relationship to remain "status quo".
A real life example in that time period would be Rock Hudson.
Beauty, grace, and kindness are wonderful, but compatibility in tastes and values can exist even then.
@@Stevarooni Expecting to find someone that has beauty, grace, kindness and also has the same tastes and values as you is pretty unrealistic.
@@bhamdodger Yeah, every relationship has compromises. Jeff has lived his life pursuing adventure and differences in the worst parts of the world. He should absolutely pull away from a profession he cannot pursue for long, and that friction is a huge part of what's making him push her away.
Since you asked, my favourite Hitchcock movies are 1935’s The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1938’s The Lady Vanishes, 1946’s Notorious, Rear Window, and his final movie, 1976’s Family Plot. I would love you guys to react to all of them, but if I had to choose only one, it would be Notorious. I’m sure you both would love it!
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A curious photographer w/ a learned, focused eye can't help but look out and see what's within his visual range when he's laid up. Thanks for uploading this one, ladies! One of my fave films!
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The salesman is played by Raymond Burr who famously played, Perry Mason.
Grew up with Perry Mason reruns, around the time they put him in a wheelchair.🤣
The musician is played by Ross Bagdasarian, who wrote the songs "Witch Doctor" and "One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater" and created Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Intereesting that he mostly played bad guys in most of his movies.
Yes, a classic! 😀 First time I saw this, I just couldn’t figure how Jeff would refuse Lisa…what a putz! To find a woman like that….oooh boy, better than owning a gold mine. (Do more classics please 😁)
Good reaction and edit. Jimmy Stewart was one of our greatest actors. If you want to see him in a comedy put 'Harvey' on your list.
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Grace Kelly's skirt is the same color of the unhappy woman's suit across the courtyard.
Rope or Strangers on a Train are my favorite Hitchcock films.
Yes! One of my all-time favorites, but so few reactors do this one.
The movie Suburbia and the horror comedy FRIGHT NIGHT used heavily from this Hitchcock formula of spying on your neighbor,a murder,nobody believes you,the killer sees you great movie
I seriously love it that so many young reactors are checking out older films. I'm an older guy (teenager in the 1970s), these things were so undervalued that the broadcast rights fees for them were so cheap that it was how the few TV stations that broadcast for 24hrs a day stayed on the air overnight before those stupid "infomercials" were invented. I eventually ended up working in TV, ended up at Turner Broadcasting, it was great to see these films again on TCM! (My broadcast crew at Cartoon Network were also responsible for maintaining TCM back in the videotape days)
Hmm..more Hitchcock. The original UK 1930s version of "The Thirty Nine Steps", and his "North by Northwest".
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John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) - a seriously excellent heist caper
One of my favorite Hitchcock is “North by Northwest”
Hitchcock appears in one of the apartments across the courtyard in his usual cameo.
Nobody shuts their window because it's too hot. This is before the widespread use of air conditioning. That's indeed the way those casts used to be. I remember my cousin stayed with us when she broke her leg, and it was the same thing. "He gets it from his landlady once a month" simply means that he has to pay the rent. By the way those flashes were indeed very bright and blinging.
This is his best. Some will say Vertigo. Hell, some will quote any one of a half dozen or more of them as his best. And they'd all be right from their point of view. But this one is mine.
Rear Window, Vertigo, Rope, Psycho, North By Northwest are top tier, with Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers On a Train not far behind.
I don't personally like 'The Birds', but it is another of his really big movies. And they're all worth a watch.
The unsung hero of this movie is Thelma Ritter. She is in another movie I would recommond for you two: All About Eve.
Hitchcock never made bad films. Each entry in his filmography always had something interesting and/or disturbing going on. In this case, you have both. His camera angles, dialog, choice of actors, sets, etc. were always top notch, since he was a perfectionist. It's great that you both decided to watch a classic movie like this. Keep going and finally watch "The Forbidden Planet". :)
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Super classic movie. The plot was based on the short story "It Had to be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich, originally published in the pulp magazine Dime Detective in 1942, though I think Hitchcock did a really good job presenting and expanding the setting with the other characters and neighbors relative to the source material.
Great movie. After you see a few Hitchcock movies like Vertigo , Psycho and North By Northwest you should see Mel Brooks movie "High Anxiety" . a spoof on Hitchcock movies. Also another great suspense movie which is like Hitchcock movie but is not his movie is ""Charade" . Fyi Grace Kelly Rip who plays Jimmy Stewart girlfriend is a real life princess of Monaco. Also Hitchcock makes a cameo in the movie. He is the bald guy in the room with Piano Man. You should see other Jimmy Stewart Rip movies : Vertigo , The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, Harvey and Mr Smith Goest to Washington , .
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My Grandad who lived in inner city Chicago in the 40s and 50s said that folks weren't particularly as concerned with privacy in those days as we are now. Also, there's a heatwave in NY during the few days the film takes place so everyone has ALL of their windows open. No AC, of course. And James Stewart's character is bored out of his mind... It's really a brilliantly conceived little premise for a thriller, and Hitchcock invented many.
The only part that's not convincing is that the killer doesn't once notice Jimmy Stewart sitting is his apartment staring at him Lol. But... that's movie logic, you just have to suspend disbelief.
You should view Hitchcock's THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY. A dark comedy it was Shirley McClain's first film. Also stars John Forsythe and from Leave it to Beaver a very, very young Jerry Mathers. Beautiful location and lots of fun. Often overlooked.
I almost fell off my chair when Michelle said “the spinning thing maybe…” I come from that time of rotary dial telephones, so it just struck me as funny! We used to call that “dialing” the phone. My, oh my, I’m gettin’ old… 🤣🤣🤣
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yea that was a funny comment by NAT. I stil recall my Parent's home 6 digit ph number and of course when you had to dial a ph # in another town or state u THEN had to add the area code which LARS was doing
Alas....the digital cell phone generation.
"Strangers On A Train" and "North By Northwest" are two Hitchcock films that get referenced a bit.
Great movie. The copyright for this movie and VERTIGO was is dispute for a long time so I didn't get to see it until the 90s.
I loved your comments and reactions to this classic film!
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I've always believed that having one's cake and NOT eating it is a waste of cake.
Another older movie that you have to watch is 12 Angry Men from 1957. Courtroom drama with one of the best written scripts ever in my opinion. It has to be because 98% of the movie takes place in a single room. Love seeing some of the older movies getting some love. There is a movie from 2007 called Disturbia with Shia LaBeouf, that I believe probably took some inspiration from this movie.
Before in home air-conditioning many houses had sleeping porches and many large cities had what was called a boulevard which was a divided road with a tree shaded grassy area between. during the hot months families would move cots and cooking grills into the green area, cook and eat dinner then sleep on cots under the stars.
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From a more civilized time.
Love the old classics. White heat,
Key largo,
Wizzard of Oz
The birds
North by north west
And many others
Film noir is great also
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Key Largo is OK, but Bogey and Bacall were better as Steve and Slim in To Have and Have Not. Of course, Bogey at his best is Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, but he might be most accessible to today's reactors in color in The African Queen.
You should definitely watch "To Catch a Thief" for more Grace Kelly and Hitchcock , Great Film
Thank you both for giving Hitch another try. This is one of my favorite films. All one set, great cast, and fun characters. If you'd like to give Hitch another effort please try To Catch A Thief, North By Northwest, The Birds, and Dial M For Murder. Great reaction.
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You commented more than once that you didn't understand why everybody had their windows open. This was a classic old courtyard apartment building as you would find it in a city back then. 1954 nobody had central AC and you didn't see a single window unit. It was in the 90's in the evening so everyone would have every window open to catch any breeze at all to alleviate the heat. Also the couple pulling their bedding onto the balcony was another common way to beat the heat. Did you ever notice that southern homes had second floor balconies that wrapped all the way around the house? It was common practice for whole families to sleep outside before AC appeared. There was something called swamp air cooling and I had that in an old depression era house in Dallas at one time. It was a very large unit with a big tray full of water (and chlorine to keep bacteria down) that was pumped up and drizzled down over interwoven cane. It evaporatively cooled the air and fans blew this lightly cooled air into the house.
Thanks ladies, great movie, grace kelly ( princess grace) looked gorgeous in it , this was her second hitchcock movie, dail m for murder , they made a remake with gweneth palthrow , viggo morthenson and Micheal
Oh and to cathch a thief , another hitchcock , high noon was a great early hit , a western
She definitely did!
Love this movie!
They did a spoof in an episode of The Simpsons, Bart Of Darkness, where Bart, having broken his leg while trying to jump in the pool, ends up in a cast, and uses a telescope to spy on his neighbors, until he thinks Ned Flanders killed his wife. He tries telling Lisa, who doesn't believe him, until she notices Flanders bury something in the backyard.
Hitchcock makes his signature cameo in the songwriter's apartment, winding a clock.
My favorite Hitchcock movie? All of them! But, it's North By Northwest
The murderer is Raymond Burr, best known for “Perry Mason” and “Ironsides”. Also, Jimmy Stewart flew B24 Liberators over Germany in WW2 and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. You might check out “Harvey”, an obscure little film starring Stewart. Very Funny.
Just watched this movie a few months ago for the first time! Loved it!
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Love this movie! Such a classic, the suspense definitely keeps you on your toes. Disturbia (2007) and The Ring (2002) have references to this film. Grace Kelly is a treasure, to catch a thief (1955) is my favorite film with her. Great reaction as always, ladies!
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