# Rope and other great Hitchcock movies

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**Created:** [October 6, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rope-and-other-great-hitchcock-movies/466742 "2008-10-06T21:12:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rope-and-other-great-hitchcock-movies/466742/21 "2008-10-07T16:15:27Z")

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I’ve always been fond of _To Catch a Thief_. Not, perhaps, one of his most weighty efforts, but it is a charmingly unreal slice of High Life. Plus it has Grace Kelly urging Cary Grant to fondle her “diamonds”, If You Know What I Mean:

_“Look, John. Hold them. Diamonds… The only thing in the world you can’t resist. Then tell me you don’t know what I’m talking about.”_

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rope-and-other-great-hitchcock-movies/466742/22 "2008-10-07T20:11:45Z")

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I’ll join the chorus on _To Catch A Thief_. Fun film. Who was the actress who played the young European woman?

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rope-and-other-great-hitchcock-movies/466742/23 "2008-10-07T22:40:22Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> I’ll join the chorus on _To Catch A Thief_. Fun film. Who was the actress who played the young European woman?

[Brigitte Auber](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041270/).

While I’m posting, I’ll finish the exchange I posted above:

\*“You know as well as I do that those gems are imitation.”

“Well, _I’m_ not”\*

Rowr!

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rope-and-other-great-hitchcock-movies/466742/24 "2008-10-07T22:47:22Z")

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My husband and I just saw \*Rope \*for the first time about a month ago. We _loved_ it! \*Rear Window \*is my other favorite.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rope-and-other-great-hitchcock-movies/466742/25 "2008-10-07T23:48:49Z")

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I was iffy about Vertigo when I saw it for the first time, until

“I need you to be Madeleine for a while. And when it’s done, we’ll both be free.”

_That’s_ scary.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rope-and-other-great-hitchcock-movies/466742/26 "2008-10-07T23:49:38Z")

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> [@TroubleAgain](#):
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> My husband and I just saw \*Rope \*for the first time about a month ago. We _loved_ it! \*Rear Window \*is my other favorite.

Those are my faves too. I actually wrote a paper about Rope and the other two films inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case: Compulsion and Swoon.

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