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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Thank you! I was thinking the same thing. And no offense to Joseph Cotton, but he was no Jimmy Stewart, who appeared in Rope, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo. All in color.
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Rope was an experimental film though too. The reels of film had some 10 or so minutes on them when shot and Hitchcock would have the camera zoom in on someone's back or other such just as the film was running out in order to limit the amount of cuts he had to make. The movie was also based (I believe) on a play from England about the Leopold and Loeb murder. In that way it is similar to "And Then There Were None" which was based on a stage play which in turn was based on the book of the same name. Agatha Christie changed the ending of the book when she wrote the play and the screenwriters used the play as the basis of the screenplay.