"Suspended San Francisco detective "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) becomes obsessed with Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak), a troubled woman he is privately hired to follow. Tragedy ensues, and when Ferguson later stumbles upon Judy Barton (Kim Novak), a young woman who bears a striking resemblance to Madeleine, his obsession spirals out of control." (Fandango)
"After half a century of monopolising the top spot, 'Citizen Kane' was beginning to look smugly inviolable. Call it Schadenfreude, but let's rejoice that this now conventional and ritualised symbol of 'the greatest' has finally been taken down a peg. The accession of 'Vertigo' is hardly in the nature of a coup d'état. Tying for 11th place in 1972, Hitchcock's masterpiece steadily inched up the poll over the next three decades, and by 2002 was clearly the heir apparent." (Sight & Sound)
"In 2012, 'Vertigo' was voted number 1 on Sight & Sound's list of the top ten films of all time. "A mesmeric plunge into a vortex of time, memory and obsession, 'Vertigo' is one of the landmarks - not merely of the movies, but of twentieth-century art." (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader)
director: Alfred Hitchcock
composer: Bernard Herrmann
With: James Stewart, Kim Novak, a.o.
Credits
director: Alfred Hitchcockcomposer: Bernard Herrmann
producer: Alfred Hitchcock
screenplay: Samuel Taylor, Alec Coppel
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematography: Robert Burks
production company: Paramount Pictures
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dialogue: Englishsubtitles: Dutch subt.
country: United States of America
year: 1958
Filmography
ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1899-1980): The Pleasure Garden (1925), Fear o' God (1926), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Ring (1927/I), When Boys Leave Home (1927), The Farmer's Wife (1928), Easy Virtue (1928), Champagne (1928), Sound Test for Blackmail (1929 documentary short), The Manxman (1929), Blackmail (1929), An Elastic Affair (1930 short), The Shame of Mary Boyle (1930), Murder! (1930), The Skin Game (1931), Mary (1931), East of Shanghai (1931), Number 17 (1932),… Show more
Technical Specs
format: DCPframe: 1:1,85
Other festival films by director Alfred Hitchcock
2013:Dial M for Murder2012:The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog
2012:Vertigo
2000:Rear window
1995:Vertigo
1993:Aventure malgache
1993:Blackmail
1993:Bon voyage
1993:Rich and Strange (East of Shanghai)
1993:Sabotage
1993:The 39 steps
1993:The Lady Vanishes
1993:The Skin Game
1993:Young and innocent
1986:Psycho
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