Special features of this DVD: DVD-Rom features including access to the original script ; cast & filmmakers ; production notes ; re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart ; theatrical trailer ; photo gallery ; Rear Window featurette: a conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes ; also includes the documentary Rear Window ethics : remembering and restoring a Hitchcock classic ; scene selection ; Dolby Digital ; widescreen presentation.

Film based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich.

Originally released as a motion picture by Paramount in 1954.

Music, Franz Waxman.

Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr.

As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his grilfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD.

Audio tracks in English and French ; subtitled in English and Spanish ; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.