Word: jeffriesism
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Or consider the case of J. Eliot Morgan, a Harvard Extension School student whom Professor Leonard Jeffries of the City University of New York threatened to kill during an interview for The Crimson.
Hitchcock's film, written by John Michael Hayes and adapted from the short story by Cornell Woolrich, intertwines a murder mystery and the voyeuristic antic of an incapacitated photographer, with a feud of the sexes. Lisa Carol Freemont, the most eligible Park avenue princess, is in love with said photographer...
Kelly's entrance into the movie remains one of the most memorable scenes in film history. She enters Jeffries' apartment, coming down a small flight of entrance stairs. We see her in her full glory, a chiffon A-line flouncy dress appliqued with fronds which emerge gracefully from the waste...
Along with this duo, Hitchcock has assembled notables such as the famous character actress Thelma Ritter as Stella, the savvy insurance nurse who tries to set Jeffries' mind straight about Lisa, and Raymond Burr as the sinister murder suspect, Mr. Lars Thorwald. Stella quips after she removes the thermometer from...
And these lines reveal the feud of sorts which emerges concerning the goings-on outside the rear window of Jeffries' Chelsea, New York apartment. Lisa Carol Freemont's theories of the murder are founded on the ideas of female ritual and manner. She claims that the missing Mrs. Thorwald would...