Rope
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Rope (1948) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, inspired by the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case. The story follows two students who, influenced by their professor's amoral philosophy, murder a friend for the thrill of it. They then host a party, with the victim's body hidden in a trunk in their apartment, to boast about their crime. Jimmy Stewart stars as the professor. The film is notable for Hitchcock's experimental technique of making it appear as if shot in a single, continuous take, achieved through eight 10-minute segments cleverly disguised to conceal camera changes.1
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