Filmmaker Jeff Desom recut the scenes from Alfred Hitchock’s Rear Window (1954) viewed out the apartment window into one video. In the original movie, L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies, played by James Stewart, is confined in a wheelchair with a broken leg and spends his time watching his neighbors through the window of his Greenwich Village apartment. Eventually, he begins to suspect that one of his neighbors murdered his wife. Jeff then convinces his girlfriend, played by Grace Kelly, to help him investigate. Did he see what he thinks he saw, or is he imagining things?
Desom’s complete 20-minute recut of the window scenes from Rear Window, entitled Rear Window Loop, is not online. But a making-of video called Rear Window Timelapse contains three minutes of what Jimmy Stewart saw outside his window in the film. Check it out.
Desom tells a little more about the process of creating the film in a recent interview. He completed the project by himself in six weeks for a Luxembourg club to show on a screen above the bar. Hopefully nobody gets so drunk they think they witnessed an actual murder.
What do you think of the Rear Window recut? Leave your two cents in the comments.
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The Rear Window was my first Hitchcock movie, and in a funny turn of events I never got to see the ending. What happened was my dad took us all to see the movie, but I had to leave with maybe 10 minutes left because I had to go to a babysitting job. That must have been almost 3o years ago and I still don’t know how it ends!
What dedication to your job? That’s a funny story. Although it is a good ending, I would worry that you might be disappointed after waiting 30 years. Thanks for the comment.