Rope
It begins with a shriek...it ends with a shot! From beginning to end, nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE!
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
- Worldwide
- $2M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
10 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Rope actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Rope appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Top 100 Crime Movies Ranked #59
Placed at #59 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Rope returned 1.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $2M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Feb 1, 1948
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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