Rear Window | |
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Written by | Eric Overmyer Larry Gross |
Directed by | Jeff Bleckner |
Starring | |
Music by | David Shire |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producers | |
Producers | Sheldon Abend Robert V. Gaulin |
Cinematography | Ken Kelsch |
Editor | Geoffrey Rowland |
Running time | 89 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | November 22, 1998 |
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Rear Window is a 1998 American made-for-television crime-drama thriller film directed by Jeff Bleckner. The teleplay by Larry Gross and Eric Overmyer is an updated adaptation of the classic 1954 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock which was based on the short story It Had to Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich. It was broadcast in the United States by ABC on November 22, 1998. It stars Christopher Reeve (in one of his final screen appearances), Daryl Hannah, and Robert Forster. For his performance, Reeve was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Screen Actors Guild Award.