Vertigo (1958) USA
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Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Studio:Universal Studios
Producer:Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
Rating:4.5
Rated:PG
Date Added:2007-03-06
Purchased On:2007-06-03
ASIN:0783226055
UPC:0025192018329
Price:$19.98
Awards:Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations
Genre:Suspense
Release:1998-03-30
IMDb:0052357
Duration:128
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby
Languages:English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French
Features:Letterboxed
Alfred Hitchcock  ...  (Director)
Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac  ...  (Writer)
 
Isabel Analla  ...  
Raymond Bailey  ...  Scottie's doctor
Barbara Bel Geddes  ...  Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
Paul Bryar  ...  
Ellen Corby  ...  Manager of McKittrick Hotel
Roxann Delman  ...  
Molly Dodd  ...  
Carlo Dotto  ...  
Joanne Genthon  ...  
Buck Harrington  ...  
Tom Helmore  ...  Gavin Elster
Henry Jones  ...  Coroner
Miliza Milo  ...  
Kim Novak  ...  Madeleine Elster
Lee Patrick  ...  Car owner mistaken for Madeleine
Julian Petruzzi  ...  
Konstantin Shayne  ...  Pop Leibel
Dori Simmons  ...  
James Stewart  ...  Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson
Comments: A Hitchcock thriller. You should see it from the beginning!

Summary: Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the most recent survey. (Universal Pictures' spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerelease of this 1958 Paramount production was a tremendous success with the public, too.) James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife (a superb Kim Novak, in what becomes a double role), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall ("fall" is indeed the operative word) in love and...well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. Shot around San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of the Legion of Honor are significant locations) and elsewhere in Northern California (the redwoods, Mission San Juan Batista) in rapturous Technicolor, Vertigo is as lovely as it is haunting. --Jim Emerson