Review of Manhattan Murder Mystery

Has anybody noticed (or, for that matter, mentioned) the many similarities (and of course, discrepancies) between this Woody Allen great comedy-mystery entry and Alfred Hitchcock's mid-fifties classic «Rear Window» ? Apart from the basic premise of a neighbor's murder, some similarities are «sex-wise reversed» : for example, the Diane Keaton and Jimmy Stewart characters suspect foul play whereas the Allen and Grace Kelly characters at first dismiss that suspicion as fantasy. Besides this linkage - as far as I know -, the only Hitchcock movie Allen does refer to directly in one of his own films is «Notorious» : it occurs in «Hollywood Ending» in which the Woody Allen character discusses the effect that the ending of the Cary Grant-Ingrid Bergman movie has always had on him ! And he does mention that «Notorious» is one of his favorites films. Overall, I found the «cinéma-vérité» type of photography (had-held and seemingly improvised) a little bit disturbing... even if I suspect that this was done in order to give the picture a spontaneous documentary style.