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TIL Rope (1948 Jimmy Stewart, IMDb 8.1 RT 97%) is an 80 min Hitchcock film shot in only 10 takes, with every other cut masked so it looks like only 5 takes (projectionists changed reels every 20 min) It takes place in real time, is Hitchcock’s first Technicolor film, and was banned for homosexuality

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