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Vertigo
1958 -
Rated
PG (MPAA)
Release Date: 02/19/2001
Features:
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Collectors Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Letterbox - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Film Highlights
Production Interviews
Trailers
Alternate Ending: Hitchcock's Foreign Censorship
Featurette: OBSESSED WITH VERTIGO
Audio Commentary: Restoration Team
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Biograpahies:
1. Cast & Crew
Time:
129
mins.
J&R Item # 1022552_9
UPC # 025192018329
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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Vertigo
1958 -
Not Rated
Release Date: 10/07/2008
Features:
DVD Features:
Region 1
Snap Case
Special Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Ending: Foreign Censorship Ending
Featurette: The Vertigo Archives
Audio Commentary:
1. Herbert Coleman - Associate Producer; Robert A. Harris, James C. Katz - Restoration Team
2. William Friedkin - Director
Trailers:
1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. Restoration Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Time:
130
mins.
J&R Item # 1022552_12
UPC # 025195018357
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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VERTIGO is Alfred Hitchcock's haunting tale of deception, madness, and death--a masterful exploration of fantasy and anxiety. The film ranks with REAR WINDOW as one of the director's most closely studied films for its psychological complexity, while the obsession of its protagonist--John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart)--can also be seen to parallel that of Hitchcock's own fascination with the icy-blonde leading lady he re-created at the center of so many of his films. Ferguson is a retired detective, his career ended by the onset of a paralyzing fear of heights. An old friend, the wealthy Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), hires Ferguson to follow his wife (Kim Novak), whom, he explains, has grown obsessed with an ancestor of hers. The assignment, however, draws Ferguson out of his comfortable role as observer and into a complex web of intrigue, mingled with the detective's own fantasies and fears.
Stewart gives an exceptional performance as the disintegrating detective, while Novak, who was left largely undirected by Hitchcock, conveys a subtle and powerful psychological journey. Another star of the film is its San Francisco setting. VERTIGO is considered one of Hitchcock's most complex, finest films.
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"...Alfred Hitchcock took universal emotions, like fear, guilt and lust, placed them in ordinary characters, and developed them in images more than in words....A great film..."
-- Roger Ebert
, (Chicago Sun-Times)
"...Widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest film and certainly his most disturbing..." -- Mike Clark , (USA Today) "...An unexpectedly personal tale of obsession..." -- Ty Burr , (Entertainment Weekly) "[T]he best movie ever made about romantic obsession..." -- Mike Clark , (USA Today) 5 stars out of 5 -- "Drenched in suspense and dipped in a dollop of despair, nothing is what it seems..." -- Total Film Staff , (Total Film) 5 stars out of 5 -- "Authentically scary, sexy and disturbing." -- Kim Newman , (Empire)
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