 Stewart's second collaboration with Hitchcock, the thriller "Rear Window", became the third highest-grossing film of 1954.Hitchcock and Stewart had also formed a corporation, Patron Inc., to produce the film.Stewart portrayed a photographer, loosely based on Robert Capa, who projects his fantasies and fears onto the people he observes out his apartment window while on hiatus due to a broken leg, and comes to believe that he has witnessed a murder.