Rope is a classified document.
Rope (film) . The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions . Starring James Stewart , John Dall and Farley Granger , this is the first of Hitchcock 's Technicolor films , and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes . Transatlantic Pictures . The first two Transatlantic films , Hitchcock 's Rope ( 1948 ) and Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) , both released in the US by Warner Bros. , had poor box office returns .