Rope (film)

"The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of the world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect crime."

"We killed for the sake of danger and for the sake of killing."

"Nobody commits a murder just for the experiment of committing it. Nobody except us."

"Of course, he was a Harvard undergraduate. That might be grounds for justifiable homicide."

"Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them."

"I've always wished for more artistic talent. Well, murder can be art, too."

"The power to kill could be just as satisfying as the power to create."

"You're quite a good chicken strangler as I recall!"

"Brandon, till this very moment, this world and the people in it have always been dark and incomprehensible to me. I’ve tried to clear my way with logic and superior intellect. And you’ve thrown my own words right back in my face, Brandon. You were right, too. If nothing else, a man should stand by his words. But you’ve given my words a meaning that I never dreamed of! And you’ve tried to twist them into a cold, logical excuse for your ugly murder! Well, they never were that Brandon, and you can't make them that. There must have been something deep inside you from the very start that let you do this thing, but there’s always been something deep inside me, that would never let me do it – and would never let me be a party to it now."

"I mean that tonight you’ve made me ashamed of every concept I ever had of superior or inferior beings. But I thank you for that shame, because now I know that we are each of us a separate human being, Brandon. With the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society we live in. By what right do you dare to say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you decide that that boy in there was inferior and could be killed? Did you think you were God, Brandon? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him? Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave?! I don't know who you are but I know what you've done. You've murdered! You choked the life out of a fellow human being who could live and love as you never could, and never will again!"

"I never strangled a chicken in my life!"

"Nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's Rope"

"It's his most nerve-stretching thriller!"

"It begins with a shriek... It ends with a shot!"

"James Stewart - Rupert Cadell"

"John Dall - Brandon Shaw"

"Farley Granger - Phillip Morgan"

"Cedric Hardwicke - Mr. Kentley"

"Constance Collier - Mrs. Atwater"

"Douglas Dick - Kenneth Lawrence"

"Edith Evanson - Mrs. Wilson"

"Dick Hogan - David Kentley"

"Joan Chandler - Janet Walker"