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Vertigo

Cast

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore View All


Crew

Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Alec Coppel (Screenplay), Samuel A. Taylor (Screenplay) View All

Release: May 9th, 1958
Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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8 Question about the twist in Vertigo (1958).
SPOILER I was wondering, why did Hitchcock choose to reveal the twist earlier on, as oppose to saving it for when the main character discovered it, compared to letting the audience know quite a bit...

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The Gunslinger45
I had seen about half of the films when I started this quest, and after I was done quite a few of these movies wound up becoming some of my all time favorite films.
TheUsualSuspect
Using different lighting and colour schemes along with inventive camera techniques, Vertigo is highly regarded as one of, if not the, best Hitchcock film.
mark f
Vertigo is the kind of film which demands multiple viewings to "get into it", and then eventually you discover that the film is thematically-rich, not only in the way people behave in a relationship but how directors/scripters use their actors and how films use their viewers.
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