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裏窓 [ グレース・ケリー ] 価格:1,000円 (2018/12/28 11:56時点) 感想(2件)

Plot
Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. His rear window looks out onto a courtyard and several other apartments. During a powerful heat wave, he watches his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool.
He observes a flamboyant dancer he nicknames "Miss Torso"; a single middle-aged woman he calls "Miss Lonelyhearts"; a talented, single, middle-aged composer-pianist; several married couples; a female sculptor; and Lars Thorwald (Burr), a traveling jewelry salesman with a bedridden wife.
Jeff's sophisticated, beautiful socialite girlfriend, Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), visits him regularly, as does his insurance company's nurse, Stella (Thelma Ritter). Stella wants Jeff to settle down and marry Lisa, but Jeff is reluctant.
One night during a thunderstorm, Jeff hears a woman scream "Don't!" and then the sound of breaking glass. Later, he is awakened by thunder and observes Thorwald leaving his apartment. Thorwald makes repeated late-night trips carrying his sample case. The next morning, Jeff notices that Thorwald's wife is gone, and then sees Thorwald cleaning a large knife and handsaw. Later, Thorwald ties a large trunk with heavy rope and has moving men haul it away. Jeff discusses all this with Lisa and with Stella.
Jeff becomes convinced that Thorwald has murdered his wife. Jeff explains this to his friend Tom Doyle (Wendell Corey), a New York City Police detective, and asks him to do some research. Doyle finds nothing suspicious; apparently, Mrs. Thorwald is upstate, and picked up the trunk herself.
Soon after, a neighbor's dog is found dead with its neck broken. The dog's owner yells across the courtyard, complaining of her neighbors' callous disregard of others. All the neighbors run to their windows to see what is happening, except for Thorwald, whose cigar can be seen glowing as he sits quietly in his dark apartment.
Certain that Thorwald is also guilty of killing the dog, Jeff asks Lisa to slip an accusatory note under his door, so Jeff can watch his reaction when he reads it. Then, as a pretext to get Thorwald out of his apartment, Jeff telephones him and arranges a meeting at a bar. He believes Thorwald buried something incriminating in the courtyard flower bed, and killed the dog to stop it digging there, so when Thorwald leaves, Lisa and Stella dig up the flowers; they find nothing.
Much to Jeff's amazement and admiration, Lisa then climbs the fire escape to Thorwald's apartment and clambers in through an open window. When Thorwald returns and grabs Lisa, Jeff calls the police, who arrive in time to save her by arresting her. Jeff sees Lisa has her hands behind her back, wiggling her finger with Mrs. Thorwald's wedding ring on it. Thorwald notices this, and, realizing that she is signaling to someone, he sees Jeff across the courtyard.
Jeff phones Doyle and leaves an urgent message. Stella heads for the police station to post bail for Lisa. When his phone rings, Jeff assumes it is Doyle, and says that the suspect has left the apartment. When no one answers, Jeff realizes that Thorwald himself had called, and is heading over to confront him. When Thorwald enters, Jeff repeatedly sets off his camera flashbulbs, temporarily blinding him. However, Thorwald grabs Jeff and manages to push him out of the open window, as Jeff is yelling for help. Police officers enter the apartment as he falls to the ground; other officers have run over to break his fall. Thorwald confesses to the police soon afterward.
A few days later, the heat has lifted, and Jeff rests peacefully in his wheelchair, now with casts on both legs. The lonely neighbor is chatting with the pianist in his apartment, the dancer's lover returns home from the army, the couple whose dog was killed have a new dog, and the newly married couple are bickering.
Lisa reclines on the daybed in Jeff's apartment, wearing jeans and apparently reading a book titled Beyond the High Himalayas. As soon as Jeff falls asleep, Lisa puts the book down and happily opens a fashion magazine.

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Cast
James Stewart as L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies ジェームズ・スチュワート
Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont　グレイス・ケリー
Wendell Corey as NYPD Det. Lt. Thomas "Tom" J. Doyle　ウェンデル・コーリイ
Thelma Ritter as Stella　セルマ・リッター
Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald　レイモンド・バー

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Academy Awards
Nominated
Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography, color
Best Sound Mixing

今回の作品は1954年制作の「裏窓」。
アルフレッド・ヒッチコック監督作品。ジェームズ・スチュワート主演でグレイス・ケリーらが脇を固めます。

本作はヒッチコック監督作品の代表作の一つ。

本作の特徴は、まずジェフが全編にわたって部屋から出ないこと。
終盤に屋外のシーンがあるだけです。
場所を限定したサスペンスということです。同じように場所を限定した作品は1948年の「ロープ」でもやっていますが、「ロープ」の評価はイマイチで成功したとは言えませんでした。
その反省を踏まえて製作しています。

主人公は怪我をして車椅子生活。
自分のアパートから人々の生活を観察。
言ってしまえば覗きです。
そこから観察しているうちに、ある男が妻を殺したんだという結論に至ります。
はっきり言って証拠は全くないです。
実際にその男がやっていたから良かったものの、間違いだったらとんでもないことです。
刑事が、協力できないのも、当然のこと。

主人公に共感できない部分もあるのですが、最後犯人との対峙で映画を締まったものにしている。
結末には意外性はないかもしれないですが。
逆にひねってないので、それが意外とも言えますが。