Vertigo DVD Digital Copy Universals 100th Anniversary Release Date
Release Date : September 4, 2012
Actor : James Stewart
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Studio : Universal Home Video
UPC : 025192143342
Running Time : 130 Minutes
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Vertigo DVD Digital Copy Universals 100th Anniversary Synopsis
Set in San Francisco, the Master of Suspense creates a fascinating love story between an acrophobic detective (James Stewart) and the beautifully troubled woman (Kim Novak) whom he rescues from the bay.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 1992 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
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