Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock put together one of the greatest films of all time in “Vertigo.” This psychological thriller done in film noir style had unexpected plot twists and turns throughout the course of the picture, with loads of suspense from “The Master of Suspense” himself and a superb screenplay written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, based on the 1954 French novel “ From Among the Dead” by Boileau-Narcejac.
James Stewart played against his usual “everyman” role in this part as a police detective who retired early due to his vertigo and acrophobia. He ran into trouble when hired as a private detective to follow someone’s wife. The supporting cast includes the beautiful Kim Novak (in her prime), Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Lee Patrick, Ellen Corby (Grandma Walton on TV’s “The Waltons”), and Barbara Bel Geddes in third billing in “Vertigo” as Stewart’s gal pal who had a crush on him. Bel Geddes later shot to fame as the Ewing family matron Miss Elly on the massive hit show “ Dallas” on CBS from (1978-1990).
The extremely watchable movie classic “Vertigo” was successful at the box office in 1958 for both Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions and Paramount Pictures.
Vertigo(1958)
cinema
My Review
Producer-director Alfred Hitchcock put together one of the greatest films of all time in “Vertigo.” This psychological thriller done in film noir style had unexpected plot twists and turns throughout the course of the picture, with loads of suspense from “The Master of Suspense” himself and a superb screenplay written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, based on the 1954 French novel “ From Among the Dead” by Boileau-Narcejac.
James Stewart played against his usual “everyman” role in this part as a police detective who retired early due to his vertigo and acrophobia. He ran into trouble when hired as a private detective to follow someone’s wife. The supporting cast includes the beautiful Kim Novak (in her prime), Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Lee Patrick, Ellen Corby (Grandma Walton on TV’s “The Waltons”), and Barbara Bel Geddes in third billing in “Vertigo” as Stewart’s gal pal who had a crush on him. Bel Geddes later shot to fame as the Ewing family matron Miss Elly on the massive hit show “ Dallas” on CBS from (1978-1990).
The extremely watchable movie classic “Vertigo” was successful at the box office in 1958 for both Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions and Paramount Pictures.