Rear Window is one of Hitchcock’s greatest movies, indeed one of the greatest movies ever.

Hitchcock ingeniously makes full use of the single location set to explore one of his favourite themes: voyeurism. James Stewart plays a photographer with a broken leg, driven to distraction by boredom cooped up in his apartment, who amuses himself by observing his neighbours. He comes to believe he has witnessed a murder in the apartment opposite. Hitch favourite Grace Kelly (never lovelier) plays his devoted girlfriend. 

Rear Window has many great moments, notably when the murderer finally realises Stewart has been watching him and comes for him. It is one of my favourite Hitchcock movies.

I do wish I had an original release poster for this one, but prices being what they are, that is unlikely to ever happen. The two posters here I sold recently: one is a UK quad re-rerelease from the 80s as part of a series of classic reissues dubbed “The Essential Hitchcock”; the other is a reprint of the poster from the Belgian second release in the 60s.

UPDATE: I recently managed to track down an original copy of the Belgian poster above at auction, for a reasonable price. It came (very badly) framed and when I tried to take the frame apart it became apparent that the poster had been glued onto a cardboard backing sheet – aargh! Nonetheless, with a quality reframing it has gone up on my wall as part of my Belgian Hitchcock gallery. The poster is identical to the one above, except for the printer’s details lower right.