Rope

Crime, Drama, Thriller

James Stewart	Rupert Cadell
John Dall	Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger	Phillip Morgan
Cedric Hardwicke	Mr. Kentley
Constance Collier	Mrs. Atwater
Douglas Dick	Kenneth Lawrence
Edith Evanson	Mrs. Wilson
Dick Hogan	David Kentley
Joan Chandler	Janet Walker
Alfred Hitchcock	Man walking in street after opening credits

Director	Alfred Hitchcock
Producer	Sidney Bernstein; Alfred Hitchcock
Writer	Patrick Hamilton; Hume Cronyn; Arthur Laurents

Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the "perfect murder," their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.