text: Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock , written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich 's 1942 short story `` It Had to Be Murder '' .
simplified: It was made in 1954 and released in 1955 . The movie was based on a story , It Had To Be Murder , by Cornell Woolrich and turned into a movie script by John Michael Hayes .