Guide to Nightmare Neighbors

A thrilling portrait of voyeurism and paranoia, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window tells the story of L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart), a New York photographer bound to a wheelchair after breaking his leg. Bored out of his skull, he starts spying on his various misfit neighbors - a frustrated composer banging away on his piano, a middle-aged couple with an annoying little dog, a beautiful dancer, a pair of newlyweds concealed by their windowshade, a lonely woman who sets a place at the dinner table for her imaginary lover... and a traveling salesman named Lars Thornwald (Raymond Burr). Before too long, Jeffries begins to suspect that Thornwald has murdered his wife. Of course, he has no proof, and soon recruits his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) and his nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) to help him investigate further. This being a Hitchcock movie, it doesn't quite turn out the way you might expect...