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MPAA Rating - PG

Length:
    128 Minutes

Genre:
    Mystery

Original Release Date:
    Mar 31, 1998

Director
    Alfred Hitchcock

Cast
    James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

 
Movie Summary
Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcocks finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel Dentre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) realizes he has vertigo, a condition resulting in a fear of heights, when a police officer is killed trying to rescue him from falling off a building. Scottie then retires from his position as a private investigator, only to be lured into another case by his old college friend, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore). Elsters wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), has been possessed by a spirit, and Elster wants Scottie to follow her. He hesitantly agrees, and thus begins the films wordless montage as Scottie follows the beautiful yet enigmatic Madeleine through 1950s San Francisco (accompanied by Bernard Herrmanns hypnotic score). After saving her from suicide, Scottie begins to fall in love with her, and she appears to feel the same way. Here tragedy strikes, and each twist in the movies second half changes our preconceptions about the characters and events. In 1996 a new print of Vertigo was released, restoring the original grandeur of the colors and the San Francisco backdrop, as well as digitally enhancing the soundtrack. ~ Dylan Wilcox, All Movie Guide


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