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Film · 1958
Vertigo
UNITED STATESTHRILLER · ROMANCE · MYSTERY128 MIN
poster · vertigo (1958)
A detective retired by acrophobia is hired to follow an enigmatic woman through San Francisco. Out of the obsession born there, Hitchcock builds one of cinema’s most disturbing studies of desire, control and loss.
Review · Yesterday on TV
Vertigo: love as free fall
Hitchcock’s most personal film is a magic trick in reverse: it reveals the secret halfway through and still leaves us with no ground under our feet.
Details
- Original title
- Vertigo
- Also known as
- A Mulher que Viveu Duas Vezes (Portugal) · Um Corpo que Cai
- Year
- 1958
- Country
- United States
- Genre
- Thriller, Romance, Mystery
- Running time
- 128 min
- Language
- English
- Image
- VistaVision · Technicolor
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Distributor
- Paramount Pictures
- Release
- 1958
Credits
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay
- Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
- Based on
- Romance D’entre les morts, de Boileau-Narcejac
- Produced by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Main cast
- James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
- Cinematography
- Robert Burks
- Editing
- George Tomasini
- Music
- Bernard Herrmann
- Costume design
- Edith Head
- Title design
- Saul Bass
Awards
Voted the greatest film of all time in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll
On physical media
Recommendations · Physical media and books
Where to find it — Vertigo
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Images
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