Inspiration - More Practical, Less Elusive
Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," which was filmed and set in the 1950s, is about a professional magazine photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries, played by Jimmy Stewart, who is apartment-bound with a broken leg from a photo-shoot-gone-wrong on an automobile race track. Through his point-of-view and extended camera lens, we see goings-on of other neighbors across his courtyard. While the main plot is that Jeff thinks he witnesses a murder, one character he observes is a strugglin
