Vertigo / Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. ; director-producer, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher: United States : Paramount, 1958Publisher: United States : UniversalPublisher: United States : MCA Home VideoDescription: 1 dvd 12 in. viewing copy; 2 videocassettes of 2 (VHS) (approximately 128 minutes) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. viewing copy; 3 videocassettes of 3 (approximately 128 minutes) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. viewing copy; 14 reels of 14, approximately 11524 ft. : sound, color : 35 mm. arch pos; 14 reels of 14 on 7, 11524 ft. : sound, col, : 35 mm. arch pos (copy 2)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • videocassette
Audience:
  • General
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DAA 0988 (viewing copy)
  • VAA 0367-0368 (viewing copy)
  • VBB 1675-1677 (viewing copy)
  • CPA 0004-0017 (arch pos)
  • CQA 0622-0628 (arch pos, copy 2)
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Robert Burks ; edited by George Tomasini ; music by Bernard Herrmann ; associate producer, Herbert Coleman.
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones.Summary: 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.
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DVD Idaho Springs Public Library DVDFIC DVD FIC VERTIGO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ISPL00203482S

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. DLC

LC's archival positive, copy 2, is a reissue. DLC

Archival positive, copy 2, was selected for the National Film Registry. DLC

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.

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.

viewing copy;

viewing copies;

arch pos;

arch pos, copy 2;

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