Information
- BFI identifier50204
- Date1958 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisPsychological thriller. Scottie Ferguson is hired by an old friend to investigate his wife Madeleine's behaviour. Scottie and Madeleine fall in love, but Madeleine's death awakens Scottie's paranoia about heights. He later meets a girl, Judy, who resembles Madeleine; he becomes obsessed about her and makes her dress as Madeleine did. However, Scottie begins to realise that Madeleine, her husband and Judy are all connected. (Synopsis)
- Work historyNFT audiotape of Barry Adamson's 1995 introduction to the film held; apply at library counter.
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- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Alfred Hitchcock
©: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corporation
view all - CastJames Stewart (John 'Scottie' Ferguson)
Kim Novak (Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster)
Barbara Bel Geddes (Midge Wood)
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Title
Vertigo (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/39FE-B96B-01BE-453E-64D7-ECategory
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm Positive - Polyester - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Boileau, Pierre; Narcejac, Thomas - SCR-640
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-50204
Small pressbook held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-5q7
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-wtg
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view all - ArticlesEmpire n132 June 2000 - DVD ReviewPremiere v10 n2 October 1996 - Short ArticleFilm Criticism v19 n2 Winter 1994/5 - ArticleEmpire n63 September 1994 - Articleview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes September 2004
BFI Southbank Programme Notes August 2012
BFI Southbank Programme Notes December 2011
BFI Southbank Programme Notes July 2019
BFI Southbank Programme Notes February 2018
available to view in BFI Reuben Library