Rediscover the atmosphere of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous psychological thriller with this superb Vertigo Poster, ideal for your decoration!
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Description of this Hitchcock Vertigo Poster
Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir, a psychological thriller directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story is based on the novel From the Dead by Boileau-Narcejac (1954). The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John “Scottie” Ferguson, who retired because an incident on duty caused him to develop acrophobia (an extreme fear of heights) and vertigo, a false sensation of spinning motion. Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a private investigator to follow Gavin’s wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), who is behaving strangely.
The film was shot in San Francisco, California, as well as at Mission San Juan Bautista, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, and Paramount Studios in Hollywood. It is the first film to use the dolly zoom, a camera effect that distorts perspective to create disorientation, to convey Scottie’s acrophobia. Because of its use in this film, the effect is often referred to as “the Vertigo effect.” In 1996, the film underwent a major restoration to create a new 70mm print and a DTS soundtrack. Vertigo received mixed reviews upon its initial release, but is now considered a Hitchcock classic and one of his defining works. In 1989, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry because of their “cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.”[4][5] The film has repeatedly appeared in the American Film Institute’s polls of the greatest films,[6] including a 2007 ranking as the ninth greatest American film of all time. Attracting the attention of scholars, it replaced Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film ever made in the 2012 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll,[7] and came in second in 2022.
After a rooftop chase in which a fellow police officer falls to his death, San Francisco detective John “Scottie” Ferguson retires due to a fear of heights and vertigo. Scottie attempts to overcome his fear, but his ex-fiancée, underwear designer Marjorie “Midge” Wood, claims that another severe emotional shock may be the only cure.
Gavin Elster, a college acquaintance, asks Scottie to shadow his wife, Madeleine, on the grounds that she is behaving strangely and her mental state is abnormal. Scottie reluctantly agrees and follows Madeleine to a florist, where she buys a bouquet, to the Mission San Francisco de Asís and the grave of Carlotta Valdes (1831-1857), and to the Legion of Honor Art Museum, where she contemplates Carlotta’s portrait. He sees her enter the McKittrick Hotel, but upon investigation, she does not appear to be there. A local historian explains that Carlotta Valdes committed suicide: she had been the mistress of a wealthy married man and had borne his child; the otherwise childless man kept the child and rejected Carlotta. Gavin reveals that Carlotta (whom he fears possesses Madeleine) is Madeleine’s great-grandmother, though Madeleine knows nothing of this and cannot remember the places she has visited. Scottie follows Madeleine to Fort Point, and when she jumps into the bay, he saves her. The next day, Madeleine stops to give Scottie a letter of gratitude, and they decide to spend the day together. They go to Muir Woods and Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, where Madeleine runs toward the ocean. Scottie catches her, and they kiss. The next day, Madeleine visits Scottie and tells him about a nightmare. Scottie identifies it as Mission San Juan Bautista, Carlotta’s childhood home. He takes her there, and they share their love. Madeleine suddenly runs into the church and climbs the bell tower. Scottie, stopped on the steps by his acrophobia, sees Madeleine plunge to her death. The death is ruled a suicide. Gavin doesn’t blame Scottie, but Scottie breaks down, becomes clinically depressed, and is sent to a sanitarium, nearly catatonic. After his release, Scottie frequents the places Madeleine visited, often imagining he sees her. One day, he notices a woman on the street who reminds him of Madeleine, despite her different appearance. Scottie follows her to her hotel room, where she identifies herself as Judy Barton, from Salina, Kansas. Judy has a flashback revealing that she was the person Scottie knew as “Madeleine Elster.” She was posing as Gavin’s wife in an elaborate murder plot. Judy writes a letter to Scottie explaining her involvement: Gavin deliberately took advantage of Scottie’s acrophobia to substitute his wife’s freshly killed body in the apparent “suicide jump.” However, Judy tears up the letter and continues the charade because she loves Scottie. They begin seeing each other, but Scottie remains obsessed with “Madeleine.” He asks Judy to change her clothes and dye her hair to look like Madeleine. After Judy agrees, hoping they can finally find happiness together, he notices she is wearing the necklace depicted in Carlotta’s painting. Scottie realizes the truth and insists on driving Judy back to the Mission. There, he tells her he must piece together the event that led to her madness, admitting that he now understands that “Madeleine” and Judy are the same person, and that Judy was Gavin’s mistress before being rejected, just like Carlotta. Scottie forces her up into the bell tower and makes her confess her deception. Scottie reaches the top, finally overcoming his acrophobia. Judy confesses that Gavin paid her to pretend to be a “possessed” Magdalene. Judy begs Scottie for forgiveness because she loves him. He kisses her, but a shadow—actually a nun investigating the noise—emerges from the tower’s trapdoor and startles her. Judy suddenly throws herself backward and falls to her death. Scottie, grieving once again but cured of his fear of heights, stands on the ledge as the nun rings the mission bell.