STAR RATINGS EXPLAINED

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Excellent

Good

Fair

Tragic

FILM DETAILS

Certificate PG

Cast James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes

Directors Alfred Hitchcock

Screenwriters Alec Coppel Samuel Taylor

Running Time 128 minutes

Vertigo (PG)

Plot
Scottie Ferguson (Stewart) is hired to watch ghost-like Madeleine Elster (Novak), a disturbed young woman. He falls in love, but his vertigo renders him powerless to prevent her suicidal leap from a bell-tower. Mentally scarred, he roams San Francisco until meeting Judy, a dead ringer for Madeleine, after which the truth slowly unravels.

Verdict
Gripping throughout with frame upon frame of standout images and superb performances from the two leads


Reviewer: Jake Hamilton

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