Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two ...

“Rope” is mostly known for appearing as if it were a single take, but in fact it’s an absorbing thriller that will help you appreciate the master. By Ben Kenigsberg Alfred Hitchcock may seem like an ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we revisit Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1948 thriller Rope, long cited as a thinly veiled queer allegory. Every ...

Editor's note: "Essential" is a new series from Dallas Morning News critics and special contributors spotlighting timeless works of art and culture. I'd known about this 1948 Hitchcock classic since ...

In 1948 Alfred Hitchcock, long cinematically memorialized as an editing technique pioneer, completed his crime and suspense-driven and infamously homoerotic tale “Rope,” based on the 1928 play. The ...

Rope (1948) - Alfred HitchcockTwo young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the ...