I’ve never seen … Rear Window

For a housebound James Stewart, staring out at the neighbours becomes an all-consuming obsession.

Luckily he has Grace Kelly to help sort truth from fantasySee the other classic missed films in this seriesSome turned to Contagion, but the film I decided to watch in the first week of the lockdown was Rear Window, which turns out to be as close to having a Secret Cinema-type experience from the confines of one’s home as it is possible to have.

I am not sure why this particular Hitchcock, out of all the big Hitchcocks, was the one I had left unwatched, though I suspect it could be due to me confusing the title with “rearview mirror”, which left a low hum of an idea in the back of my mind that it was about cars.

I knew that it was about voyeurism, and witnessing a murder, but what I

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