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Vertigo Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore

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  • DVD Release Date: 10/07/2008
  • Original Release: 1958
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 12,865

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Disc 1:; Feature commentary with associate producer Herbert Coleman, restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz and other Vertigo participants; Feature commentary with film director William Friedkin; Forein censorship ending; The Vertigo archives; Production notes; Original and restoration trailers; Disc 2:; Obsessed With Vertigo: new life for Hitchcock's masterpiece; Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's collaboraters; Hitchcock/Truffaut interview excerpts; Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Case of Mr. Pelham"

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Disc #1 -- Vertigo
1. Main Titles [3:22]
2. The Fallen Cop [1:36]
3. Johnny-O and Midge [6:19]
4. A Favor for a Friend [5:33]
5. Elster's Wife [5:19]
6. Among the Dead [3:28]
7. A Portrait of Carlotta [2:03]
8. The McKittrick Hotel [6:06]
9. Beautiful Carlotta, Sad Carlotta [4:26]
10. Carlotta's Blood [1:58]
11. To the Golden Gate [2:38]
12. Into the Bay [:59]
13. Scottie's Guest [9:11]
14. Two Wanderers [5:17]
15. The Sequoias [3:39]
16. The Fragments of the Mirror [3:25]
17. The Desperate Urge [3:03]
18. Madelein's Dream [3:55]
19. It's All Real... [3:29]
20. The Tower [2:16]
21. Things Left Undone [5:31]
22. Nightmares [1:37]
23. Melancholia [3:36]
24. Ghosts [2:35]
25. The Woman At the Empire Hotel [6:27]
26. The Living and the Dead [4:15]
27. Because I Remind You of Her... [3:06]
28. The Gentleman Knows What He Wants... [3:46]
29. There's Something in You... [2:50]
30. The Transformation [5:23]
31. The Necklace [1:58]
32. Back into the Past [2:36]
33. My Second Chance [3:51]
34. There's No Bringing Her Back [2:16]
35. Restoration Credits [1:29]
Disc #2 -- Vertigo
1. A Masterpiece Almost Lost [2:20]
2. Development and Restoration [5:46]
3. Casting and Vistavision [2:22]
4. Shooting Begins Septemper, 1957 [1:53]
5. The Stars: Locations At San Juan Bautista [3:38]
6. Costumes by Edith Head [1:47]
7. Production Design [1:12]
8. The "Vertigo Effect" [1:01]
9. Music and Titles [1:32]
10. Vertigo Fully Restored [6:37]
11. End Titles Credits [1:05]

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Released in 1958, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo was the first of a four-movie run -- North By Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds followed -- that would embody the essence of the director's mastery of his craft and his inimitable knack for telling a scary story. Vertigo introduced Hollywood to an intangible but eminently destructive villain: obsession. James Stewart plays a retired police investigator hired by an old college pal to secretly follow his wife (Kim Novak), whom the friend says is behaving strangely. As Stewart trails Novak through the bayside parks of San Francisco, backed only by Bernard Herrmann's mesmerizing score, he becomes mysteriously, and romantically, fixated on her. A series of plot twists -- including an apparent suicide, an act of betrayal and the titular psychological disorder suffered by Stewart -- ultimately upends the action, and the film reaches a fevered crescendo. Based on the French novel D'entres les morts, Vertigo was originally met with a lukewarm reception by critics. In the years since, however, it has become one of Hitchcock's most analyzed -- and admired -- films. Bruce Kluger, Barnes & Noble

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Great Hitchcockby Anonymous

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April 13, 2009: Vertigo is one of Hitchcock's most mesmerizing and haunting films. James Stewart and Kim Novak give stellar performances. The bonuses are informative and intriguing. Highly recommended.

Hitchcock's Defining Masterpiece!by RedSoxFan

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October 31, 2008: Fans of Hitchcock all have differing opinions on what they consider to to be his best film. Some love the suspense and adventure of North By Northwest. Others prefer the darkness and twists of Psycho. For me, all the elements of what made him one of the great directors of all time come together in his most personal film, Vertigo.

Hitchcock was a hit by the time he made Vertigo. He had established himself as one of the most popular movie makers of his era with hits like Rebecca, Notorious and The Man Who Knew Too Much. So, with the power he had amassed in Hollywood he set out to take a chance to make movie that, at the time, could not be considered to have a very mainstream plot. Add to that, the fact that he chose to cast Jimmy Stewart, Hollywood's Everyman, in the title role of tortured former detective John "Scotty" Ferguson, Hitch was taking a gamble that audiences would embrace a tale that hiding just under the surface has some controversial themes that could leave the observant viewer a little wierded out.

In my opinion, this is Stewart's best and most nuanced performance of his storied career. He gives the character's obsession with Kim Novak's forlorn Madeline many layers which slowly peal away throught the course of the film.

Of course, the movie transitions from well-made suspense into a comment on the nature of obsession and grief when Madeline kills herself. Hitchcock was notorious for his reputation as a control freak when it came to his female characters. He obsessed over their clothes, looks, and their performances. All of that comes through in Jimmy Stewart's performance as he tries to bring his lost love back from the dead through his makeover of new girlfriend, Judy (also played by Kim Novak).

All in all, Vertigo is a seriously underrated film, and should be at the top of any serious list of the greatest movies of all time.


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