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Vertigo [1958] starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones directed by: Alfred Hitchcock List Price: £9.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £5.98 You Save: £4.01 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: DVD EAN: 5035822005143 Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen Label: Universal Pictures UK Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Pictures UK Region Code: 2 Release Date: October 17, 2005 Running Time: 124 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures UK Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 1959 Sales Rank: 4813 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Dreamlike and nightmarishly surreal, Vertigo is Hitchcock's most personal film because it confronts many of the convoluted psychological issues that haunted and fascinated the director. The psychological complexity and the stark truthfulness of their rampant emotions keeps these strangely obsessive characters alive on screen, and Hitchcock understood better than most their barely repressed sexual compulsions, their fascination with death and their almost overwhelming desire for transcendent love. James Stewart finds profound and disturbing new depths in his psyche as Scotty, the tortured acrophobic detective on the trail of a suicidal woman apparently possessed by the ghost of someone long dead. Kim Novak is the classical Hitchcockian blonde whose icy exterior conceals a churning, volcanic emotional core. The agonised romance of Bernard Herrmann's score accompanies the two actors as a third and vitally important character, moving the film along to its culmination in an ecstasy of Wagnerian tragedy. Of course Hitch lavished especial care on every aspect of the production, from designer Edith Head's costumes (he, like Scotty, was most insistent on the grey dress), to the specific colour scheme of each location, to the famous reverse zoom "Vertigo" effect (much imitated, never bettered). The result is Hitch's greatest work and an undisputed landmark of cinema history. On the DVD: This disc presents the superb restored print of this film in a wonderful widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic transfer, with remastered Dolby digital soundtrack. There's a half-hour documentary made in 1996 about the painstaking two-year restoration process, plus an informative commentary from the restorers Robert Harris and James Katz, who are joined by original producer Herbert Coleman. There are also text features on the production, cast and crew, plus a trailer for the theatrical release of the restoration. This is an undeniably essential requirement for every DVD collection. --Mark Walker Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Not quite the masterpiece it's made out to beA cult film, this, and its many adoring fans will find criticism of it repugnant and blasphemous. Nevertheless there are flaws. First, as Hitchcock himself ruefully acknowledged, James Stewart was a trifle too old for the part of hero. Greying and slightly jowly and 50 years old when the film was made, he makes an unlikely suitor for the charms of the mainly cold and expressionless Kim Novak - how Hitch loved statuesque wooden blondes! Confined for much of the time behind the wheel of his car, he resorts to pulling faces - of astonishment, frustration, disbelief and infatuation - but there's a limit to which face-pulling can be regarded as a substitute for acting. Not one of his better roles, to put it mildly. Then there's the plot, which is ... Read More: Rating: - Do not look below!Vertigo is a well chosen word for the atmosphere of this film. San Francisco detective Scottie (James Stewart) chases a suspect on the rooftops of the buildings, he slips and barely holds on the rain gutter of one building. Another policeman comes to his rescue but he slips and gets killed after falling down. Scottie is deeply affected from this experience and he resigns from the force to open up his own detective agency. One friend of his hires him to guard his wife. What from? Evil spirits that engulf her! Funny enough Scottie does not believe in heresy but once he focuses on the case he is deeply moved with the situation. The wife of his friend spends hours at a certain museum staring at the same portrait of an aristocrat woman who died a ... Read More: Rating:  - One of Hitchcock's finestI've seen this film several times and every time I find many new aspects to it. Of particular interest is the famous dream sequence with its highly surrealistic imagery as well as the repeated image of the painting featuring Carlotta's grandmother. These two sequences clearly foreshadow the protagonist's ultimate fate, even though this is not clearly apparent in the final shots. Hitchcock's choice of Jimmy Stewart as the lead was a good move in my opinion. His performance has the right amount of vulnerability and courage. Kim Novak is also very good as the tormented "ice maiden". All in all, an amazing film! Rating: - A GREAT FILMAlfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is probably his most discussed film, and I believe that since it is so controversial- and yet living up to such hype by having a level of mystery, daring and true human interest that is open to interpretation- it gets better with every passing year. It deserves more credit than it gets (like most of Hitchcock's films) and though it is well credited with it's intrigue, I think that Psycho (not that it is a bad film) gets more credit than this film should get. There are at least a few reasons for this, arguably of course. One, the acting is spectacular including James Stewart in one of his very best turns as the weary, emotionally perplexed and obsessed cop with a slight fear of heights and a 'thing' for a certain 'dead' ... Read More: Rating:  - This is a Thriller?Scottie (James Stewart) is a police officer forced to retire due to injuries and his dizzying fear of heights. His old friend Gavin (Tom Helmore) needs his services, however. Gavin's wife Madeleine (Kim Novak) appears to be going crazy. She wanders around town but has no recollection of the events. What really worries Gavin is that Madeleine is at the same age her great-grandmother committed suicide by jumping to her death. Scottie eventually agrees to the job, but doesn't put much stalk in the theory that Madeleine is possessed. At least at first he doesn't. Is she really possessed? Can Scottie save her life? And does the audience care? I've only seen a couple Hitchcock flicks, and I was less then impressed with ... Read More: |
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