The Rope Rope is a film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring among others James Stewart, which was released in 1948 and became a blockbuster. To do this movie Hitchcock got inspiration from a stage play entitled Rope's End, by Patrick Hamilton. This show was based on real facts, which happened in 1924: the abduction and murder of a teenager. On May 21, 1924 two young men, Loeb and Leopold aged 18 and 19 abducted and murdered a 14-year-old-boy. Both of them were very intelligent and came from rich families. They did it just to prove that they were able to, and because they were convinced that they could get away with it. They thought that they were smarter than everyone else and that they would not be caught because they had committed the perfect crime. Of course, they were not as intelligent as they believed and were caught and arrested. They were not sentenced to death thanks to a twelve-hour speech made by their lawyer, which persuade the judge and got a life sentence instead. Loeb was killed by another prisoner in 1936, while Leopold got out on parole in1958 and moved to Puerto Rico, where he lived the rest of his life.