History Trivia / Rope

** Farley Granger was bisexual, playing the most-likely gay Philip.

** Creator/JamesStewart said later that this was his least favorite collaboration with Hitchcock. He felt he had been miscast.

* EnforcedMethodActing: The actress playing Mrs. Wilson was apparently treated like a maid by the rest of the cast during filming.

* DoingItForTheArt: People in the cast and crew were determined not to make any mistakes due to the long takes. As such a camera man got his foot broken by a dolly - and he was merely gagged and taken off set. Likewise one of the actresses was meant to put a glass down but missed the table - and a stage hand had to rush in and catch it before it smashed. ''Both'' takes are in the final cut.

* ActorAllusion: Director Allusion - the Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman film Janet and Mrs. Atwater can't remember is ''Notorious'' - which is directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: There are four cuts that aren't hidden - because the projectionist screening the film would need to change the reels.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer shows [[spoiler: the final scene of Rupert finding out about David's murder]], thus eliminating a lot of the suspense.

** Creator/CaryGrant was the original choice to play Rupert Cadell but he turned it down, and the part went to James Stewart instead. Grant would later take a role originally meant for Stewart in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''.

* WordOfGod: Screenwriter Arthur Laurents confirms that in the original play, Rupert had an affair with one of the two murderers back at school.

* BannedInChina: Actually banned in Worcester, New Bedford, Spokane, Seattle, Atlanta and Memphis. However, the National Legion of Decency ruled it "morally unobjectionable for adults" and per the New York Times there were "no pronounced objections voiced by religious groups".

* BannedInChina: Actually banned in certain American cities, due to the implied homosexual nature of Brandon and Philip's relationship.

* ActorAllusion: Director Allusion - the Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman film Janet and Mrs Atwater can't remember is ''Notorious'' - which is directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
* ActorSharedBackground: Mrs Atwater describes Philip as a Cancer starsign - which Farley Granger was in real life too. Mrs Atwater was also right [[ShownTheirWork about the celebrity signs she mentioned]].

** Creator/JamesStewart said later that this was his least favourite collaboration with Hitchcock. He felt he had been miscast.

* EnforcedMethodActing: The actress playing Mrs Wilson was apparently treated like a maid by the rest of the cast during filming.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JamesStewart - America's favourite wholesome leading man - as Rupert Cadell - a former SadistTeacher.

* ActorSharedBackground: Mrs Atwater describes Philip as a cancer starsign - which Farley Granger was in real life too. Mrs Atwater was also right [[ShownTheirWork about the celebrity signs she mentioned]].

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: There are four cuts that aren't hidden - because the projectionist screening the film would need to change the reels.

* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer has a conversation between Janet and David in Central Park that ended up cut from the film.

* ActorSharedBackground: Philip is AmbiguouslyGay in the film. His actor Farley Granger was bisexual in real life. Mrs Atwater also describes Philip as a cancer starsign - which Granger was in real life too. Mrs Atwater was also right [[ShownTheirWork about the celebrity signs she mentioned]].
** Almost in reverse of Granger's situation, John Dall was a gay man portraying Brandon as AmbiguouslyBi.

** Creator/JamesStewart said later that this was his least favourite collaboration with Hitchcock (he hated how he acted in it, not the film itself).

** The film originally opened with a scene of Janet and David in Central Park. It's not in the final film but is used in the trailer.
** According to the screenwriter, Hitchcock's original intent was to not open with the murder - and to have the audience in doubt for most of the movie as to whether a murder had actually taken place or not. Needless to say the movie opens with the murder, and the tension is instead changed to whether or not they'll get away with it.

** James Stewart said later that this was his least favourite collaboration with Hitchcock (he hated how he acted in it, not the film itself).
** Hitchcock himself regarded the film as a failed experiment. It's been VindicatedByHistory, like many of his others.

* PlayingAgainstType: James Stewart - America's favourite wholesome leading man - as Rupert Cadell - a former SadistTeacher.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The film and the play were partially inspired by a real life murder two students committed.

** Montgomery Clift was the original choice to play Brandon.

** Almost in reverse of Granger's situation, John Dall, was a gay man portraying Brandon as AmbiguouslyBi.

* CreatorBacklash: James Stewart said later that this was his least favourite collaboration with Hitchcock (he hated how he acted in it, not the film itself).

* PlayingAgainstType: James Stewart as Rupert Cadell.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CaryGrant was the original choice to play Rupert Cadell but he turned it down, and the part went to James Stewart instead.

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