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Vertigo
1958
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 |
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| 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 |
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| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies, 100 Top Thrillers |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 21 Apr 2003 Production year: 1958 |
| Format | DVD |
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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.
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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.
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21 out of 22 people found this review helpful
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. -
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
A film that really hits the heights
Vertigo is probably one of the best collaborations between James Stewart and the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock.
Set in San Franciso, John Ferguson (Stewart) suffers will agoraphobia after an accident whilst serving in the police force. Now retired, Ferguson is asked by a friend to follow his wife who has started to develop some suspicious character traits. Typically, Ferguson is drawn to the woman and starts to believe her story. As the fim develops all is not what it seems, leading Ferguson into a pschyological spiral and obsesiveness.
Stewart is brilliant as ever and Hitchcock's direction is masterful. Considering this film was made over 40 years ago, it still feels fresh and innovative. The only reason it doesn't get five stars is that Rear Window is the best Hitchcock film ever made and nothing is really on a par with. -
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