Rope is Hitchcock's first post-Selznick production, the first film he produced himself and over which he had complete creative control. The result is a disturbing and distasteful story (two young men strangle a friend and stuff his body into a chest, on which they serve dinner to his family and fiancée) as well as Hitchcock's famous experiment in film form. Rope appears to be shot in one continuous take, with no cuts-like an unbroken rope. Poulenc's "Mouvement Perpetuel" is the fitting musical accompaniment. Except for avant-garde filmmakers like Andy Warhol, no one has attempted to make a film like Rope again, for good reason according to many of the film's critics. William Rothman's assessment is more positive: "...the deliberateness of every move the camera makes creates a state of perpetual tension....At the center of Rope there is a secret-there will be no cuts, only camera movements-that is no secret at all. This...defines the film's conception (and) makes its execution a virtuoso performance." -Marilyn Fabe