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All I know, this film wasn’t so successful at first and this probably because the audience didn’t expect a film so dark and claustrophobic. Vertigo was so strange already from the beginning because of its surreal and nightmarish atmosphere. I bow to Hitchcock in his creativity in visualizing Jimmy Stewart’s acrophobia by implementing one of the oldest cinematography techniques, using zoom lens as it zooms in while the object moves away, emphasizing his terrified feeling and insecurity whenever he’s at a particular height due to a chronic vertigo he suffers. As always, the film director’s cameo... read the rest.
Vertigo
(1958)
Overview
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Tagline
Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension!
Crew
| Director: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Writers: | Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor |
Cast
James Stewart 
Kim Novak 
Barbara Bel Geddes 
Tom Helmore |
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Production Companies
Paramount Pictures, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
