Rope (film) Rope (film) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes.
Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films films, also: In Hitchcock's films, trains are often featured. Extended sequences on trains occur in a number of Hitchcock films, including Some of his films take place in the past as opposed to the modern day, As related in articles by François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and others in the French film magazine "Cahiers du Cinema"—and in Chabrol and Rohmer's book "Hitchcock" (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957) -- Hitchcock often sets up a villain/antagonist who has a dark secret. In the course of the film, Hitchcock, through the screenplay and the filming, makes it clear that the hero/protagonist somehow shares