Peeping Tom

REAR WINDOW (1954)
Directed by … Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart ... L. B. Jefferies
Grace Kelly ... Lisa Carol Fremont
Wendell Corey ... Det. Lt. Thomas J. Doyle
Thelma Ritter ... Stella
Raymond Burr ... Lars Thorwald
After breaking his leg while on location shooting, professional photographer L.B. Jefferies (Jimmy Stewart) is forced into a cast and wheelchair for weeks on end. To take up this time of sitting around he spies on the neighbors to see what’s going on in their lives. In his care is Stella (Thelma Ritter) a home care nurse who washes him and feeds him until his cast is removed. Stella doesn’t who has grown fond of Jefferies doesn’t approve of his peeping habits on his neighbors but neither the less can do anything about it. During his isolated time Jefferies comes too relative too his neighbors and predicts their habits and nicknames them based on these attributes.
Lisa Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly) Jefferies long time girlfriend visits during the nights too feed Jefferies dinner. Being a couple for a long time Lisa finds it very hard not being able to marry him under Jefferies wishes. Leaving in a fit of rage Jefferies is fitted in front of the window once more like a television. Fading in and out of his days, but during one night he notices the couple he always sees fighting isn’t fighting anymore and the only one left in there apartment is Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr).
Jefferies puts this under very large suspicion and begins to pay even closer attention to this window. After these thoughts begin to become almost statements of a strange reality Jefferies presumes that Mr. Thorwald murdered his wife. After strong persuasion he is able to convince Stella of these awful ideas and even convinces his beloved Lisa.
Lisa then convinces Jefferies to call his friend at the police station Det. Lt. Thomas J. Doyle (Wendell Corey) to investigate. But Det. Doyle can’t find any leads or go any farther with only suspicion. Jefferies decides to drop the whole ordeal until a neighbors dog begins to dig in Thorwalds garden and ends up dead. Now the thought that her body is buried there he sends Stella to check the new fresh soil for anything at all. But there turns up nothing.
After extreme observation over Mr. Thorwald and his living area he notices that all of his wife’s jewelry is left there. He then is able to get Thorwald out of his apartment and sends Lisa to search herself. She doesn’t make it out in time and is arrested by the cops. Mr. Thorwald after finding his spy goes after Jefferies.
Jefferies unable to move from his window chair can only wait for whats coming too him. Mr. Thorwald opens the door and goes after Jefferies with the intention too murder. After a struggle cops come too Jefferies rescue and stop the now murderous Thorwald, but Jefferies falls out his window.
Mr. Thorwald now a murderer of his wife is sent to jail. And Jefferies has broken in a ironic tone both of his legs. A line that perfectly rounds off the film is said by Stella in the Beginning “we have become a nation of peeping toms.” This cashing on how we as neighbors are nosing in on other people’s business.