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Grace Kelly stands beside James Stewart, who is seated and looking through binoculars, in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's film Rear Window.
Rear Window Grace Kelly and James Stewart in Rear Window (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Rear Window

film by Hitchcock [1954]
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Rear Window, American thriller film, released in 1954, that is considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most suspenseful movies. It starred Hitchcock favourites James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Stewart played L.B. Jeffries, a photographer who is confined to a wheelchair while recuperating from a broken leg. He spends his days obsessively spying out his back window into the apartments of the buildings behind him, getting to know his neighbours without ever meeting them. Gradually he becomes...

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