Nice one, Hitch!

Rating: Null/10 (1 November 2003)

I am very glad I took the time to locate this video, which is extremely difficult to find, but all the time and my $1.65 certainly paid off. Even though the movie did not receive the appreciation it deserves when it was released in 1958, Vertigo has proven another Hitchcock classic.
James Stewart stars as the leading male, Detective Scotty Ferguson, a policeman with acrophobia, a disease he found out he had at the worst possible time- whilst hanging from a gutter 10 storeys above the San Francisco streets. His fears cause him to retire from the force, when an old friend hires him to look after his wife, Madeleine(Kim Novak), because of her strange behaviour. After saving her life, Scotty falls in love with Madeleine whilst helping her deal with her mental problems, but the plot is set to thicken as Scotty's fear of heights the one factor that could stop him from saving the woman he loves. Stewart and Novak, in her best performance, are stunning the film, which has a great storyline and the best setting, the golden city of San Francisco. 4 stars, a must for any hitchock fan.