Vertigo
 | Widescreen EditionStarring: Isabel Analla, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Bryar, Ellen Corby Universal Studios, 1958, VHS Tape Customer Rating: 323 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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Although 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
Title: Vertigo (Widescreen Edition)
Sales Rank: 17716 in VHS
Actor: Isabel Analla, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Bryar, Ellen Corby
Studio: Universal Studios, 1997-03-25, Theatrical Release: 1958
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, Original recording remastered, Surround Sound, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Published)
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 128 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches, 0.38 pounds
- Fascinating and creepy...
- This movie started out a bit boring, but once Stewart's character meets Novak's character, it takes off from there. The plot centers around a man who wants Stewart to follow Novak, saying she's his wife and that she's possessed by the spirit of a woman who committed suicide 100 years before. Needless to say, Stewart falls in love with… More reviews
- DO NOT BELIEVE THIS IS NTSC!!
- If you go to amazon.co.uk and look up this title you will see that it is listed as PAL (the European standard) NOT NTSC (compatible with the US, Canada etc.).
Not only is this version Region-2 restricted - it will NOT play on a standard US DVD player unless your player can also properly decode and convert PAL video to NTSC.
I… More reviews
- Greatness
- Enough things have been said about this great movie, I cannot add anything further, just let me tell you: the scene where Judy comes out from the room dressed as Madeleine, the dreamlike view, the Music, Scotty's reaction, just like he is watching his dead love rise to life before his eyes: is powerful stuff. Just for… More reviews
- Amazing Film!
- This happens to be my favorite Hitchcock film.
The DVD is great. There are interviews and extras galore!
This is considered Hitchcock's most personal film. I think it might have something to do with the fact that almost the entire film is shown solely from Jimmy Stewart's perspective.
Scotty has had an accident and discovers he has vertigo. Almost… More reviews
- screwie plot
- Kim Novak does fine work here, as usual, but the entire story is way too far-fetched to be believable.
Movie is overrated.
And that ending? Come on. Really?
Pfffft. More reviews
