The Best Alfred Hitchcock Movie Is Hitting Streaming

Rear Window is based on Cornell Woolrich’s short story It Had to Be Murder.

The film, starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr, is celebrated for its innovative storytelling, masterful cinematography, and suspenseful atmosphere. The movie had its debut screening at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

The story revolves around L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries, a photographer who is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg. While recuperating at his Greenwich Village apartment, Jeff peers through his rear window into the neighboring apartments.

He quickly acquaints himself with the movements of “Miss Lonelyhearts,” a newlywed couple, a pianist, a dancer, and a salesman named Lars Thorwald.