Favorite Jimmy Stewart film?

Yes, I realize Jimmy Stewart was a Republican. But he was also a damned fine actor, and I doubt he was the type of Republican you find crawling about these days.

His best and my favorite.

"An experimental film masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in their large apartment, then throw a dinner party. Will the body be discovered?

In later years Hitchcock wrote off the approach as misguided, and Rope may not be one of Hitchcock's top movies, but it's still a nail-biter. They don't call him the Master of Suspense for nothing. James Stewart, as a suspicious professor, marks his first starring role for Hitchcock, a collaboration that would lead to the masterpieces Rear Window and Vertigo." --Robert Horton, from amazon.com


:hippie:

politically way ahead of its time.

But Harvey was a close favorite.

in that order. :D

My favorite Hitchcock!

Weirdly, being a Philadelphia native, I've never seen Philadelphia Story. I'm missing out, huh?

Hard to chose.

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/

Me, I like him in westerns.

he was always a great counterpoint to the cocky, swaggering, John Wayne-type.

onLy because homer simpson and meL gibson remade it.

It also featured Cary Grant, Kathryn Hepburn & writing that really crackled. But he made so many fine films. "Rear Window", "The Shop Around the Corner"--& "It's a Wonderful Life" (corn is good for you). Not to forget "Bell, Book & Candle"--featuring witches who aren't anything like Pagans, but have that urban bohemian thing going on.

And "Destry Rides Again"--which also had more to offer than Stewart:

Jimmy Stewart & Henry Fonda.

...yes, it's schmaltzy...but at the same time very inspiring.

A hopeful film, overall. And totally improbable today.