L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is a photographic reporter but is down with a broken leg he received while working. He has plenty of time to look at his back window at the neighbors. His nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) chastises him as being a window peeper. His girlfriend, Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) visits and he pays more attention to the neighbors than to her. He doesn't want the relationship to go further as he feels they are from different worlds, however she loves him. Things get interesting when he observes a neighbor going out late night on a stormy night, and his wife disappearing after that. He is convinced the neighbor, Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) has killed his wife. However he cannot convince anyone else of this. He talks to his friend in the police, Tom Doyle (Wendell Corey) but nothing he can do without some type of evidence. The police enquire and he tells them his wife went to France. He is later observed going through his wife's purse, which has her rings, including the wedding ring. But how to get anything to show the police. Lisa decides to intervene directly. First they get him out of the house, and then she goes in and finds the ring. However Thorwald comes home too early and finds her. She puts on the ring. Jefferies calls the police saving her life, but she is taken to the police station.
They now have some proof, but Thorwald is onto Jefferies and shows up at his apartment. Very exciting and very tense.
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