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Synopsis
Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D'entre les morts by Boileau-Narcejac, with a screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The film stars James Stewart as a former San Francisco police detective who has retired after an incident in the line of duty caused him to develop an extreme fear of heights, accompanied by vertigo. He is hired as a private investigator to report on the strange behavior of an acquaintance's wife.
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Poster by Saul Bass (Public domain).
Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Mirrors and DoublesMotifScottie remakes one woman into another and never notices they are the same person — the double here is a man's fantasy issued a second body.
- The Wordless StretchMotifThe first act is close to wordless surveillance — a man following a woman across San Francisco — and Hitchcock trusts the looking to carry all of it.
Credits
- Producer
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Director of Photography
- Robert Burks
- Original Music Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Editor
Box office · USD, worldwide
×3.11return on budget
Cast · 12
Trailer
2:18Alfred Hitchcock. Public domain — from Wikimedia Commons, re-encoded and served from our own storage.
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