L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries is much more interested in the goings-on of the neighbors than he is in his would-be fiancée Lisa. He only seems to come alive when seeing things he shouldn't, and when his neighbor's wife disappears one night, he is most intrigued by the neighbor's careful wrapping of a saw and an enormous knife in newspaper. My greatest respect for Jimmy Stewart as an actor is for his expression when he realizes he will be able to watch Lisa through his telephoto lens digging up (they think) Mrs. Thorvald's head from the garden - wonderfully, creepily avid, as opposed to his merely tolerating her presence on his lap.The film was based on a Cornell Woolrich (the best of the Noir fiction writers, to my mind) story, which gives Hitchcock a very strong framework to work within/against.
Please note: Carlos, my neighbor who plays Thorvald for the photo, wishes to state that he is not a murderer. He does not even own the saw, which has red acrylic paint on it.
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