Barbara Bel Geddes, Ellen Corby, Henry Jones
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
DVD Release Date: March 31, 1998
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October 29, 2009well acted and beautifully shot but after the 1st half of da film i lost interest
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August 20, 2009"You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental."
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her....( read more) -
June 13, 2009Another twisted tale by Hitchcock. For me the excitement of the tale really didn't get started until the "event" took place, which was quite a way through the film and found myself quite bored until this point. Then the film took a totally different direction and of course when...( read more)
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May 6, 2009An emotionally shattered ex-detective becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles the love he failed to prevent from committing suicide in one of Alfred Hitchcock's great psychological thrillers. James Stewart gives one of his most intense performances as the disturbed acro...( read more)
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April 26, 2009hitchcock can be great or awful. here he's definitely made a hit rather than miss. james stewart is always good to watch and kim novak is lovely to look at. it has a shocking beginning and a shock ending. it starts off as a mystery and ends as a convoluted romance. yes, a mesmeri...( read more)
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November 24, 2009good mystery movie by Alfred Hitchcock... James Stewart was fantastic... enjoyed his humorous interactions with Barbara Bel Geddes...
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November 22, 2009Perfect. Jimmy Stewart gives one of his best and most intense performances and the growing obsession adds a great sense of dread.
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November 21, 2009Alfred hitchcock never ceases to amaze me as he is rightly known as the "Master of Suspense". I was pretty much on the edge of my seat most of the time I watched this. The acting was superb and the camera work was so well done. This story was so well done, they just don't make th...( read more)
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November 19, 2009Quite good but overrated like Hitch's other films, Themes like desire & obsession haven't been explored well but the whole thing works as an entertaining film with a bleak tone & some interesting moments
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November 17, 2009This was cinematically so well done. Psycho is still Hitchcock's best that I've seen, but this was still pretty good.
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August 25, 2007Yay! first comment!
yeah I've been reading all your reviews (because I have no life...) and I thought vertigo was REALLY good, but I can see how some people wouldn't like it... I do think it's one of hitchcock's best, probably THE best... Hmm, i dunno, I mean pyscho was good and the birds and north by northwest and... okay maybe I should shut up now! but I can't! I think I'll go and add this movie to my favourites list. I found it to be a pretty disturbing movie though, it kinda messed with my mind a bit... especially the dream sequence, only hitchcock could pull that off and make it creepy, while with other directors it'd probably just end up pretty ridicolous (I can't spell :P )
yeah, I'll leave now...
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