Rear Window (1954)

Synopsis. A news photographer, L. B. Jefferies (James Stewart), confined to a wheelchair by a broken leg, spends his days watching his neighbors across the courtyard of his Greenwich Village apartment. Both his tart-tongued nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) and his fiancée Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), a highfashion executive, chide him for his idle voyeurism. Jeff is wary of marriage, fearing that Lisa’s society background is incompatible with his itinerant lifestyle. His attitude toward marriage is also colored by the unhappy relationships he views among his neighbors, particularly the dysfunctional union of a salesman, Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), and his nagging