Vertigo

The Resource Vertigo
Label
Vertigo
Statement of responsibility
Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation ; director-producer, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor
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  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
  • San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson, forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia, is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife, who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide
  • Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman
  • "Considredd by many to be director Alfred Hitchcock's greatest achievement ... Set among San Francisco's renown landmarks, James Steward is brilliant as Scottie Ferguson, an acrophobic detective hired to shadow a friend's suicidal wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak). After he saves her from drowning in the bay, Scottie's interest shifts from business to facination with the icy, alluring blonde. When tragedy strikes and Madeleine dies, Scottie is devastated. But when he finds another woman remarkably like his lost love, the now obsessed detective must unravel the secrets of the past to find the key to his future."--Container notes
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Cataloging source
HVC
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Robert Burks ; editor, George Tomasini ; music, Bernard Herrmann ; associate producer, Herbert Coleman
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG
Language note
English, French or Spanish language tracks ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired ; optional Spanish and French subtitles
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.V47 1998
PerformerNote
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones
Runtime
128
Series statement
  • Alfred Hitchcock collection
  • Collector's edition
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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