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Rear Window

The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the work houseThey got no windows in the work house. You know, in the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells youre always watchin worth a red-hot poker? Oh dear, weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes, sir. Hows that for a bit of home-spun philosophy?

— Rear Window philosophy

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Cornell Woolrich story and John Michael Hayes screenplay.

— Rear Window story

Jeff: Youve got to get me out of here. Six weeks sitting in a two-room apartment with nothing to do but look out the window at the neighbors. ..If you dont pull me out of this swamp of boredom, Im gonna do something drasticlike what? Im gonna get married and then Ill never be able to go anywhere.

— Rear Window art

Jeff: Yeah, cant you just see me, rushin home to a hot apartment to listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher and the garbage disposal, the nagging wife.

— Rear Window art

Jeff: Is that so, that so? Maybe in the high rent district they discuss, in my neighborhood they still nag.

— Rear Window

Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles awayI can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin out the window. See things you shouldnt see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. Youre pleading: Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father. And the Judge says, Well, congratulations, youve just given birth to three years in Dannemora.

— Rear Window love

Jeff: Yeah, right now Id welcome troubleYou know, I think youre right. I think there is going to be trouble around here.

— Rear Window you

Stella: Every mans ready for marriage when the right girl comes along. And Lisa Fremont is the right girl for any man with half a brain who can get one eye open.

— Rear Window marriage

Stella: Its happened before you know. Some of the worlds happiest marriages have, uh, started under the gun, as you might say.

— Rear Window art

Jeff: Shes too perfect. Shes too talented, shes too beautiful. Shes too sophisticated. Shes too everything but what I want.

— Rear Window beautiful

Jeff: Well, its very simple, Stella. She belongs to that rarified atmosphere of Park Avenue, you know. Expensive restaurants, literary cocktail partiesCan you imagine her tramping around the world with a camera bum who never has more than a weeks salary in the bank? If she was only ordinary.

— Rear Window art

Jeff: Ill probably get married one of these days, and when I do, its gonna be to someone who thinks of life not just as a new dress, and a lobster dinner, the latest scandal. I need a woman whos willingto go anywhere and do anything and love it. So the honest thing for me to do is just to call the whole thing off and let her find somebody else.

— Rear Window love

Stella: Yeah, I can hear you now. Get out of my life. Youre a perfectly wonderful woman - youre too good for me. Look, Mr. Jefferies, Im not an educated woman, but I can tell you one thing. When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham! Like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

— Rear Window life

Stella: Intelligence! Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. Hah! Modern marriage!

— Rear Window intelligence

Jeff: Ive seen it through that window. Ive seen bickering and family quarrels and mysterious trips at night, knives and saws and ropes, and now since last evening, not a sign of the wife. All right, now you tell me where she is

— Rear Window family

Lisa: Maybe hes leaving his wife, I dont know, I dont care. Lots of people have knives and saws and ropes around their houses and lots of men dont speak to their wives all day. Lots of wives nag and men hate them and trouble starts. But very very few of them end up in murder if thats what youre thinking.

— Rear Window art

Lisa: You could see because the shades were up and, and he walked along the corridor and the street and the back yard. Oh Jeff, do you think a murderer would let you see all that? That he wouldnt pull the shades down and hide behind them?

— Rear Window ya

Lisa: Oh, and thats where youre not being clever. A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.

— Rear Window crime

Lisa: It doesnt make sense to meWomen arent that unpredictableA woman has a favorite handbag and it always hangs on her bedpost where she can get at it easily. And then all of a sudden, she goes away on a trip and leaves it behind. Why?

— Rear Window women

Jeff: Because she didnt know she was going on a trip. And where shes going she wouldnt need the handbag.

— Rear Window need

Lisa: Yes, but only her husband would know that. And that jewelry. Women dont keep their jewelry in a purse, getting all twisted and scratched and tangled up.

— Rear Window women

Lisa: They do not. And they dont leave it behind either. Why, a woman going anywhere but the hospital would always take makeup, perfume, and jewelryThats basic equipment. And you dont leave it behind in your husbands drawer in your favorite handbag.

— Rear Window men

Lisa: Surprise is the most important element of attack. And besides, youre not up on your private eye literature. When theyre in trouble, its always their Girl Friday who gets them out of it.

— Rear Window literature

Jeff: Well, is she the girl that saves him from the clutches of the seductive showgirls and the overpassionate daughters of the rich?

— Rear Window passion

Jeff: Because everything this fellows done has been suspicious: trips at night in the rain, knifes, saws, trunks with rope, and now this wife that isnt there anymore.

— Rear Window night

Lt. Doyle: I admit it does have a mysterious sound. But it could be any number of things for the wife disappearing. Murder is the least part.

— Rear Window art

Jeff: Now, Doyle, dont tell me that hes just an unemployed magician amusing the neighborhood with his sleight of hand. Dont tell me that.

— Rear Window magic

Lt. Doyle: I checked the railroad station. Yesterday at 6:20 am, he bought a ticket. Ten minutes later, he put his wife on a train. Destination: Meritsville. I assure you, the witnesses are that deep.

— Rear Window you

Lt. Doyle: Look, Miss Fremont, that feminine intuition stuff sells magazines, but in real life its still a fairy tale. I dont know how many times I chased down leads based on womens intuition.

— Rear Window life

Jeff: You know, much as I hate to give Thomas J. Doyle too much credit, he might have gotten ahold of something when he said that was pretty private stuff going on out there. I wonder if it is ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens. Do you, do you suppose its ethical even if you prove that he didnt commit a crime?

— Rear Window hate

Jeff: Of course, they can do the same thing to me. Watch me like a bug under a glass if they want to.

— Rear Window want

Lisa: You and me with long faces, plunged into despair because we find out a man didnt kill his wife. Were two of the most frightening ghouls Ive ever known. Youd think we could be a little bit happier that the poor woman is alive and well. Whatever happened to that old saying: Love thy neighbor?

— Rear Window love

Stella: Come on, thats what were all thinkin. He killed her in there, now he has to clean up those stains before he leaves.

— Rear Window think

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