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    Release dateMay 28, 1958 (USA)
    Content ratingPG · TV-PG
    GenreMystery · Romance · Thriller
    Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
    Plot

    After a rooftop chase in which a fellow policeman falls to his death, San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson retires due to acrophobia and accompanying vertigo caused by the incident. Midge, his ex-fiancée, sa… See more

    Cast

    James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson
    Kim Novak as Judy Barton / Madeleine Elster
    Tom Helmore as Gavin Elster
    Barbara Bel Geddes as Marjorie "Midge" Wood… See more

    Themes and interpretations

    In his monograph dedicated to the study of Vertigo, Charles Barr has stated that the central theme of the film is psychological obsession, concentrating in particular on Scottie as obsessed with the women in his life. Barr no… See more

    Production

    The screenplay of Vertigo is an adaptation of the 1954 French novel D'entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Hitchcock had attempted to buy the rights to the previous novel by th… See more

    Release

    Vertigo premiered in San Francisco on May 9, 1958, at the Stage Door Theater (now the August Hall nightclub). While Vertigo did break even upon its original release, earning $3.2 million in North American distributor r… See more

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