Jeff must wear a cast for one more week before returning to his adventurous life. James Stewart plays LB “Jeff” Jeffries, a photojournalist who is home recovering from a broken leg. The 1954 adaptation was shot on the Paramount Studio lot with a full-sized apartment building courtyard to mimic the real thing in Greenwich Village.
Our protagonist believes he has witnessed a murder across the street and is trying to get the police to take him seriously. The story's bones are the same as the film: an injured man stuck in his apartment becomes a “peeping tom,” spying on his neighbors and being grumpy to “Sam,” who is paid to help him. (See S onny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, 1998.) He was so proficient as a writer of novels, screenplays, and short stories he had two noms de plumes-William Irish & George Hopley.Ī lonely man (he once dedicated a book to his hotel room), when he passed in 1968, he left his work to his alma mater Columbia University which eventually helped change the copyright laws. Woolrich is considered one of his generation's best mystery/suspense writers, with dozens of titles making it to movie adaptations, including The Bride Wore Black, Night Had a Thousand Eyes, Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of his finest works based on the short story It Had to be Murder by Cornell Woolrich. The Margos are swooning throughout this episode for one of the greatest movies of all time, adapted from a short story by a very interesting (and prolific) author.
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