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Vertigo Details

1958 Certificate PG
  • Rated:
  • 70
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DVD special features: The Birds: All About The Birds - Making Of, Tippi Hedren's Screen Test, Universal News Reel Stories x 2, Storyboard Sequence: Deleted Scene (Script Pages), Alternative Ending (Sketches & Storyboards), Production Photographs. Family Plot: Plotting Family Plot - Making Of, Storyboards. Frenzy: The Story .. Read more

Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Jones
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Genres Thriller

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Vertigo

DVD special features:

The Birds: All About The Birds - Making Of, Tippi Hedren's Screen Test, Universal News Reel Stories x 2, Storyboard Sequence: Deleted Scene (Script Pages), Alternative Ending (Sketches & Storyboards), Production Photographs.

Family Plot: Plotting Family Plot - Making Of, Storyboards.

Frenzy: The Story Of Frenzy - Making Of.

The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Making Of The Man Who Knew Too Much, Trailer Compilation.

"Marnie": The Trouble With Marnie - Making Of, Production Photographs.

Rear Window: Rear Window Ethics: Remembering & Restoring a Hitchcock Classic - Making Of, Featurette, Trailer Compilation.

Saboteur: A Closer Look - Making Of, Storyboards, Hitchcock Sketches.

Shadow Of A Doubt: Beyond Doubt: The Making Of Hitchcock's Favourite Film, Production Drawings.

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin - Making Of, Alternative Endings x 3 - Duel/Airport/Suicide, Storyboards, Production Photographs.

Torn Curtain: Torn Curtain Rising - Making Of, Scenes Scored By Composer Bernard Herrmann.

The Trouble With Harry: The Trouble With Harry Isn't Over - Making Of, Trailer Compilation.

Rope: Rope Unleashed - Making Of, Trailer Compilation.

Vertigo: Obsessed with Vertigo, Feature Commentary, Cast And Filmmakers, Production Notes.

Psycho: Masters Of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock, American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock, Production Notes, Cast And Filmmakers.

Theatrical Trailers.

Art Gallery.

Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Jones, Ellen Corby, Lee Patrick, Raymond Bailey, Tom Helmore, Paul Bryar, Roland Got, Jack Richardson, Konstantin Shayne
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 4 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Collections 100 must-see movies, 100 Top Thrillers
Genres Thriller
Language DVD: English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released DVD: 21 Apr 2003
Production year: 1958
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of Vertigo

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  • 5 stars out of 5

    In one of the truly great later Hitchcocks, James Stewart plays the retired cop with a terror of heights who's hired by Tom Helmore to follow his suicidal wife, Kim Novak. Stewart falls in love with the enigmatic blonde but can't prevent her falling to her death. Some months later he spots a woman (also played by Novak) who bears an uncanny resemblance to the dead woman, and is drawn into a complex web of deceit. Novak gives her greatest performance, while the darker side of Stewart shatters his all-American Mr Nice Guy persona. A hallucinatory movie, of dreamlike revelations in its glistening San Francisco locations, it remains one of the most painful depictions of romantic fatalism in all of cinema.

    • Radio Times
  • 4 stars out of 4

    Double identity thriller which has many sequences in Hitchcock's best style. A film as unsettling as the phobia it deals with, keeping its audience dizzy and off balance throughout.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 21 out of 22 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    A stunning masterpiece

    Beautifully and powerfully directed, visually pleasing, with the same passion the French story line carries.

    Mesmeric, obsessive, and well acted.

    A love story with a sad series of twists.

    Not about, as some would have it, male dominance, and control.

    No, far more subtle, and psychological in nature.

    A story of cruel triple betrayal, manipulation, breakdown, obsessive love, repentance and giving, hurt, anger and love, all mixed very effectively and with tragic results.

    You feel for both the main characters played by J. Steward and Kim Novak in different ways, forgetting the one who really deserves your sympathy completely.

    James Steward plays his role under Hitchcocks direction perfectly, Novaks Hyde to Dr. Jeckel transformation is stunningly effective.

      • A.S from Wales
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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    The best masterpiece in the world

    I saw this movie for the first time about a year ago, and I must say that I love it. It is my absolute favourite film, and this film does not lack excellence in any of its wonderful scenes.

    Please rent this, as this film is the best I have seen in the world. There is no word to describe it besides a masterpiece. Flawless, brilliant, haunting, and by the end of it you won't go near heights again! I think I can safely say that Vertigo does by far surpass all the horror movies of today, which are all, frankly, stupid.

    Please watch this!!!

      • A customer from London, England
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