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This fast-paced page-turner from E. W. Hornung has something for every reader: a juicy murder mystery, a tender romance, charming local color, a critique of.
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Everyone believed she did it but the verdict from the judges said otherwise.


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While free from a life in prison, Rachel felt just as imprisoned as ever. The public despises her and she needs a way out.

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To start a new life somewhere nobody knew who she was. As fate would have it, she receives an invitation from a stranger, a Mr. Steel asked for her hand in marriage in return he would whisk her away from the prying eyes of the public and into a quiet life in his countryside estate. Desperate to get away from it all and leave her turbulent past behind, Rachel accepts the offer and marries Mr.

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As she starts a new life in the countryside, revelations start to unravel themselves. As more answers as dragged into the light, the secrets that Rachel and Mr. The bad guys have it coming, and killers are much more interesting before they start repenting their crimes. But Rope rejects that formula by taking inspiration from a real-life murder, a particularly cold-hearted one, and rubbernecking on its aftermath. Rope is the dark shadow of Rear Window , a film Hitchcock made six years later, also with James Stewart, also set in a smart city apartment.

In the later film our voyeurism, and Stewart's, is morally justified: we suspect we've seen a murder but we're not sure — and the only way to uncover the truth is to keep watching. When we watch Rope, however, we know exactly what kind of sickness we're staring at and the only question is how long we can bear to look. We open with a murder, and close with a gunshot that summons the cops. What happens in between is filmed excruciatingly close to real time.

David, Brandon and Philip are gathered for cocktails in a swanky Manhattan apartment, but two of the pals throttle the third and cram his body into a heavy wooden chest. Instead of hiding themselves, or the evidence of their crime, they throw a party, inviting the dead man's loved ones to sip champagne and make small talk, just a few feet from his cooling corpse. As the sun sets over the New York skyline, the guests at the "sacrificial feast" discuss the victim, and fret over his unexplained absence, while the burial chest looms in the foreground. Constance Collier as the dead man's aunt is imperiously hilarious, Cedric Hardwicke plays his father as a clearsighted, sober, moralist, the only one in the room.

Slowly, the killers' university tutor, played by James Stewart in his first, dazzling, appearance for Hitchcock, begins to pick up on the clues. The murderers are supercilious Brandon John Dall , and sensitive Philip Farley Granger : friends and, it is heavily implied, lovers, too. Rope is adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play of the same name, which itself was said to be based on the grisly Leopold and Loeb case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were upper-class Chicago law students who went on a crime spree that culminated in the murder of a teenage boy.

Like snobbish Brandon and Philip, the real-life murderers considered themselves Nietzschean supermen whose superiority of intellect exempted them from laws that govern the rest of us. Killing a man, and getting away with it, too, just to feed one's own intellectual vanity, is a hideous, amoral stunt, but it's just the kind of trick that Hitchcock excels at. For the director, like Brandon and Philip, murder was an art, and when he made Rope he had a stunt of his own that he wanted to pull off.

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Rope is, or purports to be, a one-shot film: an experiment in real-time, continuous-take cinema. Alexander Sokurov achieved the real thing in 's Russian Ark with one gargantuan minute Steadicam shot looping around the St Petersburg Hermitage. Made 53 years earlier, Rope is neither as smooth, nor as mobile.

Technically, the best thing here is the studio skyline-backdrop, with fibreglass clouds, a travelling sun and neon lights that blink a garish red and green as the film reaches its climax. Hitchcock's camera was loaded with minute reels, and had to duck behind an actor's back, or a piece of furniture, to "invisibly" cut from one piece of film to the next.