What American playwright, stage director and screenwriter of a screenplay "Rope"?
Rope (film) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton, adapted by Hume Cronyn and with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.
Frederick Knott Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 — 17 December 2002) was an English playwright known for his ingeniously complex, crime-related plots. Though he was a reluctant writer and completed only three plays in his career, two have become classics: the London-based stage thriller "Dial M for Murder", which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock, and the chilling 1966 play "Wait Until Dark", which also became a Hollywood film.