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Name: Vertigo
Released: 1958-5-9
Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, James Stewart, Kim Novak

Vertigo

PG
2h 8m
1958

93%

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Considered by many to be director Alfred Hitchcock's greatest achievement, Leonard Maltin gives Vertigo four stars, hailing it as "A genuinely great motion picture." Set among San Francisco's renown landmarks, James Stewart is brilliant as Scottie Ferguson, an acrophobic detective hired to shadow a friend's suicidal wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak). After he saves her from drowning in the bay, Scottie's interest shifts from business to fascination with the icy, alluring blonde. When he finds another woman remarkably like his lost love, the now obsessed detective must unravel the secrets of the past to find the key to his future.

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer:

Alfred Hitchcock

Writer:

Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor

Cast:

Barbara Bel Geddes, James Stewart, Kim Novak

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: An unpredictable scary thriller that doubles as a mournful meditation on love, loss, and human comfort.

Reviews

Tri-City Herald

Gary Wolcott

Vertigo drones on for two-thirds of the movie before Hitchcock switches gears and moves the film to the level it should have been all along.

Viewed by many at the time as a departure for Alfred Hitchcock, 'Vertigo' can be seen as a return to form ... redolent of spookier works like 'Rebecca' or 'Spellbound,' with a psychoanalytic frame instead of gothic romanticism.

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Loud and Clear Reviews

Joseph Tomastik

It may take a while to work up to its thriller elements, but it 100% earns its right to be called a thriller, and one of the best, most understated, and ingenious of all time at that.

This remains one of the most painful depictions of romantic fatalism in all of cinema.

Once it switches over to us getting inside her head... I started seeing it more as Judy's story than Scottie's.

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