Vertigo
1958 · TMDB 8.1
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Why it matters
Hitchcock's masterpiece of romantic obsession, where retired detective Scottie Ferguson's acrophobia and fixation on a ghostly woman lead him to reconstruct her image onto a living woman. The film's famous dolly-zoom and colour-coded lighting externalise Scottie's spiralling inte...
From The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Released
- 1958-05-28
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 8.1
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The Master
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Possession
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Cure
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Perfect Blue
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Psycho
Same director
Rear Window
Same director
North by Northwest
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People
Key contributors
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Alfred Hitchcock
Director
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Alec Coppel
Writer
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Samuel A. Taylor
Writer
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James Stewart
Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson
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Kim Novak
Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
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Barbara Bel Geddes
Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
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Tom Helmore
Gavin Elster
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Henry Jones
Coroner
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Raymond Bailey
Scottie's Doctor
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Ellen Corby
Manager of McKittrick Hotel
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Konstantin Shayne
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