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Rope (Episode 21) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For his first attempt at a Technicolor film and his first collaboration with James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock chose to adapt the British stage play Rope's End as a series of 10 minute long takes. Loosely based on real life child murderers Leopold and Loeb, Farley Granger and John Dall murder a school chum in their apartment, hide his body in a chest of books and cooly host a party around him, aroused by the thrill of it possibly being discovered.
Dan and Vicky's date with Hitchcock includes their opinions on the film, it's central long take gimmick, the homosexual themes and the performances…
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