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Released
1948 · FILM

Rope

Two brilliant aesthetes murder their former classmate to prove they can commit the perfect crime, then host a dinner party atop Manhattan’s skyline, forcing unsuspecting guests—including the victim’s family—to dine beside the hidden corpse as tension spirals toward inevitable exposure.

“It begins with a shriek...it ends with a shot! From beginning to end, nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE!”

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock, Lowell J Farrell
Written by
Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton
Rated
MPA · Approved
Runtime
80 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 63+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William H ZieglerShot by William V SkallScored by David Buttolph

Box Office

1948 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.2M

Budget$1.5M
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Cocktail für eine Leichede
  • Ein Cocktail für eine Leichede
  • (Flemish)De koord
  • Rope's Enden
  • (Alternative Title)Festín diabólico
  • La Cordefr
  • Nodo alla golait
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • CanadaAug 23, 1948
  • TürkiyeAug 23, 1948
  • United StatesAug 26, 1948

Companies

ProductionWarner Bros., Transatlantic Pictures

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