Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding,

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2010)

It's hard to believe 'Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, It has since taken its deserved place as Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife Kim Novak, whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. 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 and VistaVision, Vertigo is as lovely as it is haunting.