Vertigo / Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor.
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publisher:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
1 videodisc (128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958. Based on the novel : D'entre les morts / by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Special features include: Obsessed with Vertigo: new life for Hitchcock's masterpiece, directed and produced by Harrison Engle for American Movie Classics; commentary with associate producer Herbert Coleman; restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz; production notes; theatrical trailers; foreign censorship ending; the Vertigo archives. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby.
Summary:
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
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