Murder brings them together. Lisa (Grace Kelly) and L.B. (Jimmy Stewart) have nothing in common. He's a daredevil photographer, and he wants to keep travelling all over the world to take pictures. She is a glamour girl, happy to stay grounded in her social class and city lifestyle. One wonders how they even met and how they ever started dated. Then again, at the end of the movie, we see that Miss Torso has a boyfriend/husband who doesn't look like he should be with her, so strange things happen in relationships. When we first see Lisa enter L.B.'s apartment, Hitchcock gives her three shots from three different angles before she kisses L.B. And why not? At the time, Hitchcock (and us) might be mesmerized by her beauty, but all L.B. can think about is what's happening across the courtyard in the apartment complex. It's weird. No one but L.B. notices anything. All these people live next to, below, and on top of one another, and yet, none of them know each other, and th...
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