Rope (Warner Bros.) (1948)

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“Ties you into knots!” —Walter Winchell “It's screen history!” —Dorothy Kilgallen “Never such terrific suspense ... leaves you breathless!” —J. Edgar Hoover “Rates rounds of applause!” —Louis Sobol “Hitchcock's brilliant use of the camera maintains unflagging suspense from the moment the chest is closed until its lid is lifted again!” NEWSWEEK “Suspense and terror enough in ROPE to satisfy the most exacting enthusiast... it is the work of a master!” N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE “ “Nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock’s ROPE’, the ad reads. This time a movie ad does not exaggerate. ROPE is a brilliant cinematic ... ice-cold smash! ... Impossible to resist!” N. Y. STAR “A real thriller! One of the most intriguing murder plots ever projected on the screen! The first director to use color for a suspenseful story of murder and detection!” N. Y. DAILY NEWS @ad SCHEDULE! LIFT FLAP “ROPE is good to the last gasp! Three cheers for Alfred Hitchcock! His ROPE is a crime hair-raiser Hollywood will long work to equal! Customers, here is one you must seel” N. Y. DAILY MIRROR “Hitchcock’s ROPE hangs up bravos! The audience will be kept in 80 minutes of concentrated dither! Adult and intense excitement every moment of the way! ROPE is Hitchcock at his best!” N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM “Packed with excitement and enormous suspense!” N. Y. JOURNAL-AMERICAN “Brilliant direction, vivid characteriza tions, breathtaking moments!” N. Y. SUN THE ADS BEGIN HERE! >