10 Best Films Set In Just One Location

Following the exploits of two young men who have just killed their school friend, placed his corpse in a trunk and then served dinner from it in front of his family, Rope is actually one of the more sadistic Hitchcock films.

It's also one of the few one-set narratives that takes a backseat to the film's other accomplishments. Rope was shot as one continuous take, cutting only ten times, a feat that would only be matched and surpassed by films like Russian Ark and Birdman.

While Hitchcock was well known for his status as the King of Suspense, his ability to conjure suspense in the audience was usually used sporadically and at different stages in the film, whereas Rope features suspense throughout.

Every time someone moves to the trunk to grab some food, the audience is reminded of what is lying in the trunk and the relationship everyone has to who is in it.

The film tackles some fairly larger issues too, such as Friedrich Nietzsche's Übermensch theory, which is what prompted the boys' murder, the social class differences and the unintended homosexual undertones throughout the film.

Rope was one of Hitchcock's greatest technical achievements and while the stories of making the film have become the stuff of legend, the film itself should bare that same level of adoration as well.