"Masterpiece.....Hitchcock's Best Film, Kim Novak's Best Performance"

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2005)

If this was the last copy of "Vertigo" on earth, I would go into a burning building to save it, without question.
I first saw this film in original release in 1958, small town in the middle of Kansas. Blew my teenage mind away.
And when the film company came to a town next door, in Salina, Kansas, with Kim Novak, to film "Picnic", I was in shock. In vertigo, when Novak shows, Stewart, her driver's license, it says, Salina, Kansas.
"Vertigo" just gets better each time I see it. And with the new restoration of the print and soundtrack, now on wide screen DVD, well thank goodness I lived to see this happen.
"Gone with the Wind" was the first film I ever saw.
What's cute bit of trivia, Kim Novak and Jimmy Steward, finished "Vertigo" and within a few weeks, turned around and did "Bell, Book, and Candle" and the contrast is amusing, and would make an interesting double feature.
Hitchcock and Novak felt it was their best film, ever. How wonderful for us.
Bernard Hermann's haunting musical score, is responsible for this film being a masterpiece. I have studied Hermann's history and his opera, "Wuthering Heights". "Ghost and Mrs. Murir" was Hermann's favorite film score, and of course, "Vertigo".