TY - ADVS AU - Hitchcock,Alfred AU - Coppel,Alec AU - Taylor,Samuel Albert AU - Stewart,James AU - Novak,Kim AU - AU - ED - Albert J. Hitchcock Productions. ED - Paramount Pictures Corporation ED - Universal City Studios. ED - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) ED - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) ED - Alfred Hitchcock Estate (Library of Congres),, TI - Vertigo AV - DAA 0988 (viewing copy) PY - 1958/// CY - United States PB - Paramount KW - Vertigo KW - Drama KW - Murder KW - Police KW - California KW - San Francisco KW - Love KW - Features KW - mim KW - Mysteries KW - local KW - Videodiscs KW - gmgpc N1 - Copyright: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. & Paramount Pictures Corp.; 9May58; LP10837; Parts of summary taken from The motion picture guide, vol. VIII, p. 3675 and Plain Dealer, 3/13/1984; Two discs in one jacket; Archival positive, copy 2, to be used as a theatrical projection print only; LC's archival positive, copy 2, is a reissue; Archival positive, copy 2, was selected for the National Film Registry; On disc label: 40822; Sources used: Variety, 5/14/1958; The motion picture guide, vol. VIII, p. 3675; Washington Post, 3/1/1984; The Sun, 3/3/1984; videodisc packaging; Catalog of copyright entries, motion pictures, 1950-1959; Director of photography, Robert Burks ; edited by George Tomasini ; music by Bernard Herrmann ; associate producer, Herbert Coleman; James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones N2 - Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia--that is vertigo or dizziness in high places. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman ER -