Vertigo(1958)
A twisting tale by Alfred Hitchcock with Jimmy Stewart
as an ex-cop that is asked to follow a man's wife to see
where she goes when she dissappears for hours at a time.
He ends up falling for the woman, and at that point the
plot thickens! A great movie starring one of the all-time
greatest actors to grace the motion picture screen!! A
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Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally
released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved
place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding,
most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently
ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade
Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing
at number 4 in the 1992 survey. (Universal Pictures'
spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerelease of
this 1958 Paramount production was a tremendous success
with the public, too.) James Stewart plays a retired
police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow
his wife (a superb Kim Novak, in what becomes a double
role), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit
of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed
woman fall ("fall" is indeed the operative word) in love
and...well, to give away any more of the story would be
criminal. Shot around San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge
and the Palace of the Legion of Honor are significant
locations) and elsewhere in Northern California (the
redwoods, Mission San Juan Batista) in rapturous Technicolor,
Vertigo is as lovely as it is haunting. --Jim Emerson