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Hailed as hitchcocks ultimate cinematic masterpiece this tale of obsession phobia and murder stars stewrt as a troubled detective obsessed with a lost love and her lookalike. Contains: feature commentary with associate producer herbert coleman and restoration team robert a. Harris and james c. Kats and more. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/02/2003 Starring: James Stewart Barbara Bel Geddes Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Alfred HitchcockAlthough 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 most recent 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 Read more
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