pixrox1 Review of Rope Unleashed

Rope Unleashed (2001 Video)

Not the best feature produced to accompany a Hitchcock film . . .

[7/10 · 2 October 2013]

. . . (STRANGERS ON A TRAIN includes a far better one by Laurent Bouzereau, who wrote, directed and produced that one, this one for ROPE, and many others for both Hitchcock flicks and movies by other directors), but at least it is adequate. Hume Cronyn, one of the actors in Cocoon (as well as being Mr. Jessica Tandy), wrote the screen adaptation for ROPE and appears as one of the "talking heads" for this extra. ROPE screenwriter Arthur Laurents also puts in more than the proverbial "two cents worth," and Farley Granger--who played the pianist thrill killer Phillip in the feature--also sheds some light on his role (the consensus seems to be that the cast and crew were much more in the closet about ROPE's psycho-sexual overtones in the late 1940s during the actual filming than they are now, or than people would be today if they remade this movie). Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Patricia also puts in an appearance here.