This article accompanies the fable
How to Look at a Naked Lady


Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954)

This is the story of news photographer L.B. Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) who is confined to his Greenwich Village apartment with a broken leg.  To keep himself occupied “Jeff” looks out of his window at the adjacent apartments and one day thinks he sees indications that a woman has been murdered by her husband.  Jeff enlists his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) to help find the truth and before long Lisa has invaded the other man’s apartment and discovered incriminating evidence.  The angry husband then invades Jeff’s apartment to kill him, but Jeff is saved from his own murder in the nick of time.