Rear Window

Cartoon series The Simpsons, Tiny Toons and Home Movies have paid homages to "Rear Window.". It was written by and starred David Essex. Rear Window was re-made as a TV movie in 1998, starring Christopher Reeve. A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s. This movie has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Despite the distinguished cast—including Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson in supporting roles and Laurence Olivier in a cameo appearance as Admiral Hood—the film had a tepid critical reception (the capsule review in Newsday read in its entirety as follows: "Man the bilge pumps") and was not a great commercial success. Brian De Palma paid homage to Rear Window with his movie Body Double (which also added touches of Hitchcock's Vertigo). It also portrays the natives mostly nude as they would have appeared at the time of The Bounty's visit to the island (the previous films couldn't portray this because of censorship and decency concerns).

Alfred Hitchcock makes his cameo in the composer's apartment. This film also suggests that the motives behind the mutiny might not have been as noble as suggested in the other films. The composer is played by Ross Bagdasarian, a nephew of William Saroyan, now better known as David Seville, creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks. It shows both Bligh and the crew as more products of their time than anything else. The movie invites speculation as to which of these paths Jeffries and Lisa will follow. The 1984 film was probably one of the more historically accurate of the films dealing with the Bounty. There are:. It then goes to Bligh's trial where he is subsequently acquitted by the Admirality.

There has been avid discussion among scholars of film about Rear Window and the way it examines the relationship between the characters played by Stewart and Kelly: most notably, how their relationship can be compared to the lives of the neighbors they are spying upon. It shows the later voyages of the Bounty as they go to Pitcairn Island. The character of Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) isn't seen in close-up, and he doesn't speak, until the climax of the movie when he appears in Jeffries' room. Once Bligh's launch reaches a Dutch colony, his part in the story comes to an end. The entire movie is filmed from the point of view of Jeffries' bedroom, and for most of the film the viewing audience can only see what he sees, from his point of view. Like the 1935 film, this version also concentrates on the trials of Bligh and those who were forced into the launch with him. It is the only film to show that one man died because of an attack by the natives of an island where the launch stopped. Over time, he comes to believe that a murder has taken place, though his friends and his girlfriend (Kelly) find it hard to believe that he can uncover a murder plot when he is sitting in his own bedroom. However, it does make the fact that Bligh was going to try circumnavigation as one of the reasons that some of the crew decided to mutiny.

Suffering from boredom, he takes to looking out the window and spying on his neighbors. This film does not so much hold Bligh as responsible - rather it is the desire of some of the crew to go back to Tahiti. Jeffries, a professional photographer who has been confined to his bedroom after an accident left him with his leg in a cast. In this film, the crew is shown as having more responsibility than they did in other films. Stewart plays the part of L.B. He tells another mutineer that he wished he had given Bligh some muskets. It is considered by critics, scholars, and film historians to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures. In this film, she is more of a reason that Fletcher mutinied than in the previous two films. Afterwards, Fletcher is shown as feeling remorseful because of the mutiny.

Rear Window (1954) is a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" (1942). The feelings become much more acrimonius after the ship leaves Tahiti after Fletcher has been forced to leave his wife behind on Tahiti. Finally, the salesman with the nagging wife, who has apparently lost all of his love for her...Lars Thorwald. However over the course of the film both men turn against each other. The piece the composer creates is called "Lisa's Theme". At first Bligh thinks so much of Christian that he asks the man to sail with him for a second time. are meant for each other, despite his stubbornness). He is shown at first as a friend of Bligh.

(A subtle hint that Lisa and L.B. In this film, Fletcher Christian is a more complex character. Miss Lonelyhearts and the music composer, two people leading empty lives who want to find that special someone...and by the end of the movie, they finally do. Their motivations in this film are not always as noble as in the other two films. is appalled by) and sleep on the fire escape to beat the summer heat. They're the couple with the nosy little dog. Many of them are shown as typical sailors of the time. They're happy living at home, doing nothing exciting (a lifestyle that L.B. They are shown to be a much more "rough and tumble" group than the crews in the other films.

The content middle-aged couple...too content, in fact. The crew is shown in a different light than in the previous two films. (Is Lisa that faithful to L.B.?). While some savage beatings were carried out under Bligh's watch in this film, it seems to be in this film no different from any other captain would have done. The beautiful blond dancer "Miss Torso" who entertains a lot of men, but at the end she remains faithful to her boyfriend who returns from the army. Bligh is not so much portrayed as a cruel tyrant in this film, but rather as a traditional ship's captain - a man of his times. Jeffries [Stewart] is afraid that he and Lisa [Grace Kelly] will have that kind of relationship, and he doesn't want to be tied down by it...at first.). In this movie, the events of the voyage up to and after the mutiny are shown as a series of flashbacks.

The newlywed couple who think they are perfect for each other (they spend the almost entire movie in their apartment, in the bedroom with the blinds drawn), but eventually their sexual appetites begin to wane and we see that their marriage will not last. (L.B. William Bligh upon arriving home after the mutiny had occurred. The movie is set during the trial of Lt. In 1984, the movie The Bounty starring Anthony Hopkins as Bligh and Mel Gibson as Christian was released. However most historical evidence shows that Fletcher lived on the island for several years before being murdered, and some even believe that he eventually returned to England some years later.

Fletcher Christian dies towards the end of the film right after the discovery of Pitcairn Island. Bligh was asleep during the inital stages of the uprising, this movie shows him as awake. This movie has Bligh and Fletcher meeting for the first time - in reality Bligh and Christian had sailed together before. This movie has the unfortunate distinction of being the least historically accurate of the films.

It only shows the beginning of the voyage of the launch and then Bligh's participation in the inquiry into the mutiny in England. However the movie does not spend too much time on what happened to those in the launch after being put off the Bounty. Like the 1935 version, this movie also portrayed Captain Bligh as a cruel tyrant whose abuse lead the crew to mutiny. This version did not win any Oscars but was nominated for seven:.

The second Mutiny on the Bounty movie was made in 1962 under the directorship of Lewis Milestone and starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard. Fletcher Christian's father had died many years before Christian's travels on board the Bounty - the movie shows the elder Christian at the trial. At the time he was halfway around the world on a second voyage for breadfruit plants. Captain Bligh was never on board HMS Pandora, nor was he present at the trial of the mutineers who stayed on Tahiti.

However, the movie does contain a few historical inaccuracies. It also deals with the aftermath. It contains scenes of the trials of those who had been put off the ship on the launch. This movie portrays Captain Bligh as an abusive villain whose cruelty towards the crew and most of the officers lead Fletcher Christian to mutiny.

The only Oscar won by the movie was for Best Picture for its producers, Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin, but it also received seven additional nominations:. David Niven and James Cagney also had bit parts in the movie. The first American film Mutiny on the Bounty was a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. He played Fletcher Christian.

The first dipiction of the mutiny on the Bounty was an Australian film called In the Wake of the Bounty and it is noteworthy as the first film to introduce Errol Flynn to movie audiences. From the novel have arisen a number of movies that deal with the mutiny, each dealing with the events of the voyage of the Bounty in different ways. He, and several other members of the crew, are eventually acquitted. He subsequently returns to Tahiti, and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial.

Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny. The 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood. Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of a novel and several films based on the Mutiny on the Bounty, the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of HMAV Bounty in 1789. Bligh, published 1791 and 1793 by Georg Forster and his father in Berlin as "Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen".

Description of actual travel logs by W. William Bligh, Meuterei auf der Bounty, Erdmann Verlag Tübingen. Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Viking Penguin, 2003, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 067003133X. Best Music, Song - Bronislaw Kaper (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - For the song "Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)".

Best Music, Score - Substantially Original - Bronislaw Kaper. Best Film Editing - John McSweeney Jr. Lory (audible). Arnold Gillespie (visual) and Milo B.

Best Effects, Special Effects - A. Best Cinematography, Color - Robert Surtees. McMillan Johnson. Davis, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt and J.

Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - George W. Academy Award for Best Picture - Aaron Rosenberg. Best Writing, Screenplay - Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings and Carey Wilson. Finston (head of department) and Herbert Stothart ("Love Song of Tahiti" written by Walter Jurmann, uncredited).

Best Music, Score - Nat W. Best Film Editing - Margaret Booth. Best Director - Frank Lloyd. Franchot Tone.

Charles Laughton. Clark Gable. Best Actor in a Leading Role -