Rope

<div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr;">“We never discussed, Hitch and I, whether the characters in Rope were homosexuals, but I thought it was apparent” – <b>Arthur Laurents</b>, screenwriter for <i>Rope</i>.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">Hitchcock’s legendary long-take thriller follows Brandon (<b>John Dall</b>) and Phillip (<b>Farley Granger</b>), two men who perform “the perfect crime” by strangling a classmate and inviting his family and mutual friends for dinner with the body concealed in the trunk they use for a buffet table. Their former college teacher Rupert (<b>James Stewart</b>) suspects their wrongdoing and before the night is over, finds out how brutally his young students have twisted his academic theories.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">A Hays Code era gem brimming with queer subtext, <i>Rope </i>kicks off the <a href="https://www.glasgowfilm.org/queer-cinema-sundays/">Queer Cinema Sundays</a> programme “Be Gay, Do Crime”.</div></div>ThrillerPT1H21MPG2026-10-25USen
James Stewart
John Dall
Farley Granger
Alfred Hitchcock
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Showtimes

October 25, 7:40 pm

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