Behind the Scenes
Director
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for directing. This is one of those facts that turns the whole Academy Awards thing into a collective facepalm. Because if you take all of the di...
Screenwriter
John Michael HayesRear Window got its start as a short story called "It Had to be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. It was snapped up by Paramount and turned over to Hayes, who'd just come to Hollywood...
Production Studio
Paramount PicturesThe Short VersionParamount Pictures distributed the movie, and Hitchcock shot the whole thing on their Hollywood soundstage. The Slightly Less Short VersionParamount is the second...
Production Design
35mm TechnicolorRear Window was shot on 35mm film in Technicolor on a huge soundstage at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Plenty of movies in the '50s were still shot in black and white. Technicolor...
Music (Score)
Franz WaxmanGerman-American composer Franz Waxman was the John Williams of his day, one of the premier film composers of the 1940s and '50s who contributed gorgeous music to a number of classic fil...