Vertigo (1958)
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 128m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Synopsis:
A San Francisco cop has a breakdown after a fellow officer dies in a rooftop chase, and finds his newfound vertigo tested again when he is hired to tail a wife with suicidal tendencies.
Review:
Hitchcock trying to be European and serious but in fact playing another of his practical jokes on the audience, with the help of the writers of Les Diaboliques. It is all very atmospheric (Herrmann's Wagnerian music and Robert Burks's cinematography deserve credit) and much revered by the critics, but with that ponderousness and artificiality that characterizes much of the master's work (dare I say!). Possibly one of the most self-revealing of his films, nonetheless, and another twist in the Stewart persona after the Mann westerns.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 128m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Synopsis:
A San Francisco cop has a breakdown after a fellow officer dies in a rooftop chase, and finds his newfound vertigo tested again when he is hired to tail a wife with suicidal tendencies.
Review:
Hitchcock trying to be European and serious but in fact playing another of his practical jokes on the audience, with the help of the writers of Les Diaboliques. It is all very atmospheric (Herrmann's Wagnerian music and Robert Burks's cinematography deserve credit) and much revered by the critics, but with that ponderousness and artificiality that characterizes much of the master's work (dare I say!). Possibly one of the most self-revealing of his films, nonetheless, and another twist in the Stewart persona after the Mann westerns.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 128m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Synopsis:
A San Francisco cop has a breakdown after a fellow officer dies in a rooftop chase, and finds his newfound vertigo tested again when he is hired to tail a wife with suicidal tendencies.
Review:
Hitchcock trying to be European and serious but in fact playing another of his practical jokes on the audience, with the help of the writers of Les Diaboliques. It is all very atmospheric (Herrmann's Wagnerian music and Robert Burks's cinematography deserve credit) and much revered by the critics, but with that ponderousness and artificiality that characterizes much of the master's work (dare I say!). Possibly one of the most self-revealing of his films, nonetheless, and another twist in the Stewart persona after the Mann westerns.