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Available on iTunes. Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" has taken its place as the director's most spellbinding and deeply personal achievement. Silver screen legend James Stewart reteams with the Master of Suspense to play a detective who falls in love with a tortured, beautiful woman (Kim Novak) he is hired to surveil.
Vertigo (1958) Vertigo (1958) is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most powerful, deep, and stunningly beautiful films (in widescreen 70 mm VistaVision) - it is a film noir that functions on multiple levels. At the time of the film's release, it was not a box-office hit, but has since been regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.
Vertigo is 114 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 55 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse but less popular than All of Us Strangers.
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After negotiations, the film rights were secured for $25,275 in April 1955. The synopsis of the novel is essentially the same as the final film: A prosperous shipbuilder hires a former detective who suffers from vertigo to tail his wife Madeleine who is acting strangely.
