Rope (Episode 21) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

For his first attempt at a Technicolor film and his first collaboration with James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock chose to adapt the British stage play Rope's End as a series of 10 minute long takes. Loosely based on real life child murderers Leopold and Loeb, Farley Granger and John Dall murder a school chum in their apartment, hide his body in a chest of books and cooly host a party around him, aroused by the thrill of it possibly being discovered. Dan and Vicky's date with Hitchcock includes their opinions on the film, it's central long take gimmick, the homosexual themes and the performances of Granger, Dall and Stewart.  They also catch us up with what they've been watching recently -- the new Christmas horror film Krampus for Dan and lots of stand up specials for Vicky. And Dan hints at a none to pleasant run in with legendary screenwriter/playwright Arthur Laurents.  Add some communist witch hunts and a dude named Pee Wee Hunt and his orchestra to the mix and you've got a Hot Date not to be missed. The body's in the chest!!  1948's Rope is your Hot Date Episode 21.