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Vertigo (Widescreen Edition)
Actor(s): Isabel Analla, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Bryar, Ellen Corby
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783221083
Format(s): Closed-captionedColorLetterboxedOriginal recording remasteredSurround SoundNTSC
ISBN: 0783221088
Label: Universal Studios
Language(s): English Analog Original LanguageEnglish Analog Published
List Price: $14.98
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Package Dimensions:
Height: 1.12"
Width: 4.19"
Length: 1.12"
Weight: 0.38 lbs.
Product Group: Video
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 1997-03-25
Running Time: 128minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
UPC: 096898294034
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential video:
Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the most recent survey. (Universal Pictures' spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerelease of this 1958 Paramount production was a tremendous success with the public, too.) James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife (a superb Kim Novak, in what becomes a double role), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall ("fall" is indeed the operative word) in love and...well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. Shot around San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of the Legion of Honor are significant locations) and elsewhere in Northern California (the redwoods, Mission San Juan Batista) in rapturous Technicolor, Vertigo is as lovely as it is haunting. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.5
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-07-06
Content: This movie started out a bit boring, but once Stewart's character meets Novak's character, it takes off from there. The plot centers around a man who wants Stewart to follow Novak, saying she's his wife and that she's possessed by the spirit of a woman who committed suicide 100 years before. Needless to say, Stewart falls in love with Novak, and she with him. She runs to her death, and he ends up a different man. But a year later, he spots a mysterious woman who looks a great deal like his lost love, and he makes her over to have the same appearance. Then he catches a mistake on her part, and sets out to get the truth from her. I won't give it all away, but the ending has a real twist and a morbid ending. The actors are all excellent, and there are things the viewer doesn't see coming. This is a movie that truly deserves 5 stars.
Summary: Fascinating and creepy...
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-05-27
Content: If you go to amazon.co.uk and look up this title you will see that it is listed as PAL (the European standard) NOT NTSC (compatible with the US, Canada etc.).
Not only is this version Region-2 restricted - it will NOT play on a standard US DVD player unless your player can also properly decode and convert PAL video to NTSC.
I do not see HOW these 'sellers' can get away with saying that Region-2 is the ONLY restriction.
The ONLY way to get 'Vertigo' in NTSC Region-1 in Anamorphic Widescreen and properly 16:9 Enhanced (at this time) is to purchase the whole 'Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection' at $95.00.
I already have most of these films so, sadly, I'm going to wait for the Blu-ray release (which they must surely be working on at this time).
Summary: DO NOT BELIEVE THIS IS NTSC!!
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-04-29
Content: Enough things have been said about this great movie, I cannot add anything further, just let me tell you: the scene where Judy comes out from the room dressed as Madeleine, the dreamlike view, the Music, Scotty's reaction, just like he is watching his dead love rise to life before his eyes: is powerful stuff. Just for that short scene this film is worthy of artistic greatness, a masterpiece, something that is rare in this days.
Absolute recommendation for any film buff, some few naysayers claim the movie is slow and the vertigo effect is dated ...yeah sure it is, but does it really matter?
Summary: Greatness
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-04-17
Content: This happens to be my favorite Hitchcock film.
The DVD is great. There are interviews and extras galore!
This is considered Hitchcock's most personal film. I think it might have something to do with the fact that almost the entire film is shown solely from Jimmy Stewart's perspective.
Scotty has had an accident and discovers he has vertigo. Almost simultaneously, an old friend calls upon him to follow the Mrs. Apparently she slips into trances that take her back to another time (and into insanity!). But complications arise as Scotty realizes his attraction to her has little to do with the job ...
This is a movie I watch over and over again. The funny thing is, I have talked to many others who have the same obsessive reaction to it as well.
Give it one viewing, and you will be hooked.
Summary: Amazing Film!
Rating - 2 Date: 2008-04-10
Content: Kim Novak does fine work here, as usual, but the entire story is way too far-fetched to be believable.
Movie is overrated.
And that ending? Come on. Really?
Pfffft.
Summary: screwie plot
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