Vertigo (film)

Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel Dentre les morts From Among the Dead by BoileauNarcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.

After a rooftop chase, where his acrophobia and vertigo result in the death of a policeman, San Francisco detective John Scottie Ferguson retires. Scottie tries to conquer his fear, but his friend and exfiance Midge Wood suggests another severe emotional shock may be the only cure.An acquaintance from college, Gavin Elster, asks Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine, claiming she has been possessed. Scottie reluctantly agrees, and follows Madeleine to a florist where she buys a bouquet of flowers, to the Mission San Francisco de Ass and the grave of Carlotta Valdes, and to an art museum where she gazes at the Portrait of Carlotta. He watches her enter the McKittrick Hotel but on investigation she does not seem to be there. ........

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