Title: Vertigo
Original Title: Vertigo
Year: 1958
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 128 Minutes (2 hours 8 min)
- Genre: Crime Mystery Romance
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Distributor: Paramount Pictures
- Age rating: PG (Parental guidance)
Release Dates
- UK: August 24 1958
- United States: May 09 1958
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Plot
Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) is a police detective who leaves the body when a colleague falls from a ledge while they were pursuing a criminal. Some time later, a call from an old friend of him, with whom he studied in school, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), which asks him to watch his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak) will make him to feel detective again. Madeleine is a beautiful woman who is depressed, and also believed to be possessed by her great-grandmother.
The most acclaimed film by Alfred Hitchcock with 'Psycho'. In fact in 2012 it was declared the best movie of all time. However, in 1959 it was nominated for only two Oscars, for best art direction and best sound.
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Trivia
Kim Novak: more presence than words
The famous actress does not speak a single word until more than a third into the movie.
From misunderstood film to masterpiece
Poorly received by critics, the film is now considered one of Hitchcock´s masterpieces and one of the best films in history. It is the best movie ever for 'Sight and Sound' magazine.
Pioneer
First ever film to use computer graphics, in some of the the sequences done by Saul Bass.
Soundtrack from 'Vertigo'
Sardis #4
Compuesta por
Victor Young
Interpretada por
Orchestrated Gus Levene Played as 39 cue 12D
Symphony No. 34 in C K. 338, 2nd Movement, Andante di Molto (piu tosto allegretto)
Compuesta por
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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