Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Based upon the novel "D'entre les morts" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Some copies issued as part of a box set, with title: Alfred Hitchcock, the masterpiece collection. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones. Special features: Obsessed with Vertigo ; feature commentary with associate producer Herbert Coleman, restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz and other Vertigo participants ; production notes ; theatrical trailers ; foreign censorship ending ; the Vertigo archives.
Summary:
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective, is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, but she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
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