James Stewart
John "Scottie" Ferguson
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English. Budget. $2.5 million [3] Box office. $7.3 million [4] Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D'entre les morts ( From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.
Vertigo: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore. A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
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- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1958-05-28
Vertigo, American psychological thriller film, released in 1958, that is considered one of director Alfred Hitchcock ’s most complex movies. Although it received a lukewarm reception upon its release, Vertigo is now commonly ranked among the greatest movies ever made. (Read Alfred Hitchcock’s 1965 Britannica essay on film production.)
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An unpredictable scary thriller that doubles as a mournful meditation on love, loss, and human comfort. Hitchcock's romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. A detective is forced to ...
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- Alfred Hitchcock
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- James Stewart
Synopsis. A woman's face gives way to a kaleidoscope of credits, signaling the start of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to Bernard Hermann's haunting score. A criminal climbs up the rungs of the ladder to the rooftop on a dark San Francisco night. John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart), a detective, and a police officer are hot on his trail.
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Oct 13, 1996 · Sooner or later, every Hitchcock woman was humiliated. “Vertigo” (1958), which is one of the two or three best films Hitchcock ever made, is the most confessional, dealing directly with the themes that controlled his art. It is *about* how Hitchcock used, feared and tried to control women. He is represented by Scottie ( James Stewart ), a ...
Vertigo (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Dining At Ernie's For the audience and for acrophobic ex-cop "Scottie" (James Stewart), the first look at Madeleine (Kim Novak) whose husband Elster (Tom Helmore) has hired him to follow around San Francisco, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, 1958.
