Rear Window

Matt Roush says...

This month’s weekly spotlight on “Neighbors” takes a sinister turn with a night of movies in which people witness horrible acts (or think they do) from their windows. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic leads the way, with James Stewart as an injured photographer spying on his courtyard through his rear window when he suspects a man (Raymond Burr) across the way has committed murder. Followed by 1949’s The Window (10/9c), starring little Bobby Driscoll as a boy who can’t get anyone to believe that he witnessed his neighbors killing a drunken sailor in their apartment. In 1973’s lurid Night Watch (11:30/10:30c), Elizabeth Taylor has similar trouble convincing anyone that she saw a murder across the street. (There’s a wicked twist to that one.) The lineup climaxes with Brian DePalma’s Hitchcock-inspired Sisters (1:15 am/12:15c) from 1972.

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