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If you look closely in one of the shots looking at the musician's pad you can see Hitchcock making a cameo like he does in all his movies. If you pay attention however, you might notice that this is a reenactment of a scene from one of his other movies, 'Rope.' Also, Hitchcock is standing in for James Stewart and the character he played in 'Rope' since Mr. Stewart is busy spying on this scene. See more...

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Rear Window (1954) - 11 mistakes

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (add more)

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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Continuity: There's an oscillating fan near the ceiling that alternates between running and not running from one cut to another in one scene.

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Continuity: When the nurse first visits Jefferies, his hands are separated. They jump together in the next shot when she places the thermometer in his mouth.

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Continuity: In the scene where Lt. Doyle quickly drinks his brandy, he spills a fair bit on the lapel collar of his pale grey suit. He wipes it off and turns to go, but as we see him leaving, the suit suddenly looks quite dry. It could not dry off like that in only a few seconds.

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Continuity: When a man carrying a big block of ice passes by the sculptress's backyard, we see her cat sitting on a chair next to her as she works on her "Hunger" sculpture. In one shot, the cat is facing toward the man, and in the next, it is facing away him when it gets up, turns around, and meows at him.

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Continuity: After James Stewart's second massage, he buttons once in the middle of his pyjama shirt. In the next shot the top button appears buttoned as well.

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Continuity: James Stewart uses a camera flashgun to defend himself by repeatedly temporarily blinding Thorvald in the closing scene. The number of flashbulbs in the cardboard box drops by two between cuts as Stewart wheels himself back away from Thorvald.

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Continuity: When Jimmy Stewart is watching the couple in the next building, the wine glass behind him alternates between being almost full and almost empty in successive shots.

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Revealing: In the shot of the helicopter hovering above the apartment building, the blue screen technique is needlessly revealed by the eratic and physically impossible movements of the chopper. This could have been avoided if the camera shooting the aircraft had been stationary. It appears, however, that it was a handheld shot.

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Continuity: When Miss Lonelyheart brings home a younger man, she slaps him on the left side of his face, but when he leaves and stands outside her door, he rubs the right side as if it hurts.

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Revealing: At the end of the movie, when Jimmy Stewart is hanging in the window, we can se that it's a stunt double.

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Continuity: If you look carefully, you can see that the apartments of Miss Lonelyheart and the Thorvalds appear to be ridiculously shallow in depth.

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