Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D'entre les morts by Boileau-Narcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.
The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson. Scottie is forced into early retirement because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia (an extreme fear of heights) and vertigo(a sensation of false, rotational movement). Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a private investigatorto follow Gavin's wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who is behaving strangely.
The film was shot on location in San Francisco, California, and at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. It is the first film to utilize the dolly zoom, an in-camera effect that distorts perspective to create disorientation, to convey Scottie's acrophobia. As a result of its use in this film, the effect is often referred to as "the Vertigo effect".
The film received mixed reviews upon initial release, but is now often cited as a classic Hitchcock film and one of the defining works of his career. Attracting significant scholarly criticism, it replaced Citizen Kane as the best film of all timein the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll and has appeared repeatedly in best film polls by theAmerican Film Institute, as well as being named in 2008 as the 40th greatest movie of all time by Empire magazine in its issue of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. In 1996, Vertigo underwent a major restoration to create a new 70mm print and DTS soundtrack.
| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Screenplay by | Alec Coppel Samuel A. Taylor |
| Based on | D'entre les morts by Boileau-Narcejac |
| Starring | James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes |
| Music by | Bernard Herrmann |
| Cinematography | Robert Burks |
| Edited by | George Tomasini |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (Original) Universal Pictures (Current) |
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| Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,479,000 |
| Box office | $14,000,000 (United States) |
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