Vertigo

Pros: Practically everything
Cons: The plot drags a bit

It has been said that during the 1950s, Hitchcock was really making a name for himself. Having directed films such as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window and Dial M for Murder, Hitchcock was on his way to some big money, despite...

Pros: Innovative camera work, well-done, evocative score, restored DVD
Cons: People read too much that is not there into this film.

"Beam Me Up, Scotty; No Intelligent Life Down Here." Capt. Kirk "There's one born every minute." P. T. Barnum " ... you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln Vertigo (1958) is one of the so-called "lost ...

Pros: The first half is interesting
Cons: The second half is bad, bad, bad

I have only seen a couple of Hitchcock's films, and frankly, I've been less then impressed. They've been overrated and just plain weird. Recently, I've decided I need to give him another chance, so I set out to watch a few more Hitchcock films. Since ...

Pros: A moody, mesmerizing tone poem that draws us repeatedly back to a precipice of madness.
Cons: It's not a film to be analyzed in terms of logic or a realistic plot.

Perhaps one should not make crude puns about a great motion picture, but my title here is one I'm sure the master suspense director, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), in an unguarded moment, might have appreciated, in private if not in public. From his ...

Pros: Excellent photography, Bernard Hermann score
Cons: Not for the impatient

How does one go about recommending this great film, a film I consider to be Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece? "Vertigo" is certainly one of the great romantic classics from one of Hollywood's greatest directors, the master of suspense himself. Not a...

Pros: Great cinematography; fantastic location shots/scenery; extraordinary background, perception shots
Cons: Dated pre-special effects innovations, one or two attempts at conveying character's inner turmoil comes off a bit cheesy

Hailed as unparalleled, a masterpiece, one of the best films, ever. At the time it was made and first released, it was dismissed by most reviewers; called dark, unrealistic, unacceptable for the average movie-goer by critics. What it was...

Pros: Photography, Sound Track, Stewart
Cons: Pace, and becomes a little long after the 20th viewing

I am going to go out on a limb here and say I don't think this is the best Hitchcock flick I have ever seen. While it has an intriguing story line and features one of my favorite old timers, Jimmy Stewart, it does not create the excitement of the...

Pros: Hitchcock's masterpiece of obsession has too many pros to list here
Cons: None

"I'm not mad! I don't want to die. There's someone within me, and she says that I must die."
--Madeleine Elster, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo


The easiest way to identify a master filmmaker is to observe how well his or...

Pros: Suspenseful, Enigmatic, Atmospheric
Cons: A little dated now

Vertigo (1958) stars James Stewart as John Ferguson, known as Scottie to his acquaintances, a retired San Francisco detective. Scottie retired from the force after a rooftop scene in which a colleague of his died, the trauma and guilt leaving Scottie...

Pros: Direction is flawless, Stewart is unbelievable, emotion is raw
Cons: almost too personal, lacks his usual pace

Hitchcock was an astounding director, in my opinion the greatest of all time. He surpasses both Spielberg and Scorsese effortlessly, his imprint on cinema could be no more huge. But is Vertigo, considered my most critics to be his most personal and ...

Pros: Great thriller
Cons: Bad date movie

"Vertigo" Revisited

"Vertigo" is one of the first films to seriously examine the odd relationship of the actor to the audience (especially the female actor to a male audience), and it’s so intellectually interesting and visually...

Pros: fantastic story, very complex plot
Cons: none..

Vertigo is a film filled with intense scenes of psychological play on words, actions and characters.
This film by Hitchcock is filled with beautiful passages of love, trickery and fate.

I highly enjoyed watching Vertigo for the first time...

Pros: Stewart, Bel Geddes, Novak, cinematography, script, score
Cons: None

In one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest and most complex films, Jimmy Stewart is in peak form playing ...

Pros: Great movie
Cons: Not a movie for everybody

"Vertigo" is a lyrical, dreamlike, tragic film. Originally panned by critics, it's since become one of Hitchcock's most acclaimed movies.

The plot is rather hard to describe, and a little disjointed. It's about a detective hired to...

Pros: Hitchcock's best, unquestionably!
Cons: Some of Kim Novak's dialogue.

Vertigo is the tale of a man (James Stewart), who, after a bungled police pursuit, is inflicted with vertigo (a form of dizziness that results when one is at great heights). Stewart is then summoned by a former friend to track the man's wife, who has...