Vertigo

Name: Vertigo
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Romance
Released: May 28, 1958
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 100
Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, David Ahdar, Ellen Corby, Henry Jones, James Stewart

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 28, 1958 | PG

Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, David Ahdar, Ellen Corby, Henry Jones, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, Raymond Bailey, Tom Helmore

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Contrary to legend, the first newspaper reviews of Vertigo were very good. It was the serious magazine reviews in "Time," "Newsweek" and "The New Yorker" that dismissed the movie. (Chicago Tribune)
Vertigo's mesmerizing title sequence is by Saul Bass--who later did the storyboards for the shower scene in "Psycho." (Chicago Tribune)
Vertigo received only two 1958 Oscar nominations, for art direction and sound. (Chicago Tribune)

Summary: Vertigo creates a dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder after an acrophobic detective rescues a mysterious blonde from the bay. [Universal Pictures]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 128 min

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Peter Stack

The greatest sexual suspense drama ever made has come to be regarded by many Hitchcock admirers as his most accomplished film. It is certainly his most forlorn, and easily his most mesmerizing. [Restored] Read full review

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Janet Maslin

Brilliantly schematic, endlessly fascinating...this prescient 1958 spellbinder can now be admired as the deepest, darkest masterpiece of Hitchcock's career. [Restored version] Read full review

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Mike Clark

Judged strictly as a movie (especially a subliminally disturbing movie), Vertigo hasn't lost a thing. You watch this guy going slowly over the brink and realize, good grief, this is Jimmy Stewart. [Restored version; Oct 1996, p.3D]

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Wanda Hale

An artistic triumph for the master of mystery. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

Vertigo, 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. Read full review

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Jay Boyar

The real force of Vertigo, though, comes from Hitchcock's intimate depiction of perversity. Seldom has obsession stood so nakedly revealed. [Restored version; 15 Nov 1996, p.20]

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The old master, now a slave to television, has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares. Read full review

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LamontRaymond

Aug 30, 2018

Hands down one of the all-time greats. Every time I see this film, it offers me something new. Just SO FAR ahead of its time.

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MAX4D

Nov 23, 2020

Another masterpiece by director Alfred Hitchcock. This movie is really a weird and good work. I watched it many times.