Vertigo (1958)
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Reviews Counted: 43 Fresh: 43 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Synopsis: VERTIGO is Alfred Hitchcock's haunting tale of deception, madness, and death--a masterful exploration of fantasy and anxiety. The film ranks with REAR WINDOW as one of the director's most closely studied films for its psychological complexity, while the obsession of its... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Alec Coppel, Samuel W. Taylor
Story: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Alec Coppel, Samuel W. Taylor
Story: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
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Vertigo is an acknowledged masterpiece, one of those narrative films in which a bracing and unpredictable story has been distilled into a form that is at once classic and inventive.
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05/30/08
Hitchcock was elsewhere an entertainer, often a great one, but Vertigo finds him working as an artist...
11/05/07
A rich, resonant meditation of male romantic obsession ... Not only does Hitchcock demonstrate a total mastery of cinematic point-of-view, but he turns what might have been mere melodrama into film poetry. Perhaps his greatest film.
02/03/06
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01/26/06
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Hitchcock's twisty, suspenseful tale is far more involving and memorable than most recent Hollywood thrillers.
09/11/05
What can one say? Exquisitely controlled, framed, scored, acted, and edited. A peerless triumph.
08/16/03
Justifying Vertigo's poor initial performance, it is a film that requires distance, as well as the completion of Hitchcock’s career. It is a moment of acknowledgment in the final, retrospective establishment of the director’s frequent themes.
01/28/03
James Stewart plays a detective who has left the police force because his fear of heights has caused, he believes, a tragedy.
01/16/02
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James Stewart, on camera almost constantly, comes through with a startlingly fine performance as the lawyer-cop who suffers from acrophobia.
02/13/01
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The most-discussed work of the master; despairingly sardonic and demanding of multiple viewings.
01/01/00
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With this masterfully conceived spine-tingler, Alfred Hitchcock once again affirms his standing as movieland's king of the suspense-drama
01/01/00
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