---
title: 'Vertigo (1958)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alfred Hitchcock'
released: '1958-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 128
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
  - 'Thriller'
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
themes:
  - 'Mirrors and Doubles'
  - 'The Wordless Stretch'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/vertigo-1958'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Vertigo (1958)

1958 · PG · 128 min · Drama, Romance, Thriller, Mystery · United States


## 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- **Producer:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- **Screenplay:** [Samuel A. Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-a-taylor), [Maxwell Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/maxwell-anderson), [Alec Coppel](https://cinepixo.com/people/alec-coppel), [Thomas Narcejac](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-narcejac), [Boileau-Narcejac](https://cinepixo.com/people/boileau-narcejac)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bernard Herrmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-herrmann)
- **Director of Photography:** [Robert Burks](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-burks)
- **Editor:** [George Tomasini](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-tomasini)

## Cast

- [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- [Ellen Corby](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellen-corby)
- [Raymond Bailey](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-bailey)
- [Konstantin Shayne](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-shayne)
- [James Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-stewart)
- [Tom Helmore](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-helmore)
- [Barbara Bel Geddes](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-bel-geddes)
- [Henry Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-jones)
- [Fred Graham](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-graham)
- [Kim Novak](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-novak)
- [Lee Patrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-patrick)
- [Bess Flowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-flowers)

## Themes & motifs

- [Mirrors and Doubles](https://cinepixo.com/topics/mirrors-and-doubles) (motif) — Scottie 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 Stretch](https://cinepixo.com/topics/the-wordless-stretch) (motif) — The 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.

Editorial, not imported: every axis and every sentence above was written here.

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Official site: http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/vertigo/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/vertigo-1958
Film facts: Wikidata (Q202548); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.