Alfred Hitchcock shot and edited this ground-breaking thriller in a no-cut continuous narrative to emulate the hit stage play upon which it is based. John Dall and Farley Granger play Brandon Shaw and Philip Morgan, two roommates who, convinced of their Nietzschean superiority, murder an old school friend, David Kentley. They hide the body in a wooden trunk, which they then use as the table for a cocktail party they are throwing, with their old teacher Rupert Cadell, Kentley's father Henry and Kentley's fiancee Janet Walker amongst the guests. As the party proceeds, the murderers' braggadocio starts to arouse Cadell's suspicions.
Rope! is a Film programme that first aired in 1948 and has been classified a PG certificate.
