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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780783221342 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, NTSC ISBN: 0783221347 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Release Date: August 03, 1999 Running Time: 128 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: 1950 Sales Rank: 2867 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the most recent survey. (Universal Pictures' spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerelease of this 1958 Paramount production was a tremendous success with the public, too.) James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife (a superb Kim Novak, in what becomes a double role), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall ("fall" is indeed the operative word) in love and...well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. Shot around San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of the Legion of Honor are significant locations) and elsewhere in Northern California (the redwoods, Mission San Juan Batista) in rapturous Technicolor, Vertigo is as lovely as it is haunting. --Jim Emerson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - 4 stars out of 4The Bottom Line: Vertigo begins as a typical Hitchcock movie, with a typical "aww-shucks" performance from James Stewart, before turning everything on its head and emerging as a great film about obsession that stands as one of the best films "The Master" ever made and perhaps one of the best of all time. Rating:  - The Strange Mrs. AllisterThe film begins with a woman's face - her eyes look bloodshot. Then the credits roll. There is a chase on the rooftops. One man slips and falls to his death. The other survives with a foot injury. [Does he look out his Rear Window?] Acrophobic? Can a cantilevered brassiere be revolutionary? John Ferguson is "available", like other Frisco bachelors. Is his problem curable? [Is there subtle humor here?] San Francisco is changing since the war. [Shipping was moving across the bay.] John is hired to ... Read More Rating:  - The vertigo comes from trying to make sense of the plotOverrated. And here's why (spoilers ahead): The main character is a detective who lets both criminals we see him encounter escape and who manages to stand around while two women and a policeman are killed. While the murderer in the main part of the story has the good sense to leave town, the accomplice hangs around like nothing has happened and then proceeds to enter a seriously twisted affair with the detective. Now if you were a murderer with a carefully thought out master plan to ... Read More Rating: - Classic Hitchcock! Beautifully restored!What's not to love about this restored version of Hitchcock's most arty, if not most entertaining work? The visual impact of this movie is enhanced by the restoration. Repeat viewing reveals the importance of color as symbol, and the incredible use of San Francisco's sweeping scenery as a character in the drama. This is Hitchcock at his most thoughtful and introspective, though, so viewers new to this film should be forewarned that the pacing may be a bit slow for modern tastes, but well worth ... Read More Rating: - AN EXQUISITE NIGHTMAREVERTIGO is the most beautiful movie Hitchcock created, with stunningly brilliant cinematography, the magnificent costumes of Edith Head, and an unforgettable score by Bernard Hermann. It is also perhaps the greatest romantic psycho-thriller of all time. Jimmy Stewart as a retired acrophobic cop was never more compelling, or complicated, and Kim Novak as the breathtaking, and coldly sensual Madeleine, and the much less, refined Judy, was positively mesmerizing. The story is ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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