Vertigo [videorecording] / Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation ; director-producer, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor.
Other Titles: D'entre les morts.
Edition: Collector's ed.
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Home Video, c1998.
ISBN: 0783226055
Description: 1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Series: The Alfred Hitchcock collection
Subject: Vertigo Drama.
Murder Drama.
Police California San Francisco Drama.
Love Drama.
Feature films.
Detective and mystery films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Mysteries. mim
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Credits: Director of photography, Robert Burks; editor, George Tomasini; music, Bernard Herrmann; associate producer, Herbert Coleman.
Performers: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: PG.
Notes: Dialogue in English, closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired, and optional Spanish and French subtitles.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.
Based on the novel D'entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
Includes restoration trailer, documentary footage, production notes.
Summary: Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. 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.
