Rear Window (1954)

Hitchcock never let Rear Window leave the studio. The entire courtyard, with its thirty-odd apartments, was built as a single set on a Paramount soundstage, reportedly the largest the studio had ever constructed, and the neighbours were directed by radio while the camera watched from Jeff's window. Raymond Burr's murderous salesman was given grey hair and spectacles that, so the story goes, were meant to recall the producer David O. Selznick, with whom Hitchcock had clashed for years. The film's own afterlife was nearly as dramatic: a dispute over the rights to Cornell Woolrich's original story went all the way to the US Supreme Court in 1990, in a case still taught in copyright law.

This is the original 1954 US One Sheet, a poster as eagerly sought as the film is admired, and among the most desirable of all Hitchcock titles. It has been linen-backed and is presented framed.

• Year: 1954
• Nationality: United States
• Condition: Linen-backed and framed
• Type: Original US One Sheet
• Size: 27 x 41 inches
• Product Code: W4182