Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two ...

Editor's note: "Essential" is a new series from Dallas Morning News critics and special contributors spotlighting timeless works of art and culture. I'd known about this 1948 Hitchcock classic since ...

What images flit across your mind when you think about Alfred Hitchcock? The English master of suspense in profile, a with a cigar? Birds accosting Tippi Hendren as she screams? There's no doubt that ...

In 1948 Alfred Hitchcock, long cinematically memorialized as an editing technique pioneer, completed his crime and suspense-driven and infamously homoerotic tale “Rope,” based on the 1928 play. The ...