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Vertigo
A director whose color palette and direction were unparalleled flexed an even richer tapestry in his psychological mystery <anchor>Vertigo</anchor>. With his Everyman muse James Stewart traversing the streets of San Francisco, Hitchcock took his work to dizzying and newfound intellectual and cinematic depths. As Stewart attempts to solve the case of the mystery woman, played with an intimate delicacy by Kim Novak, the two go on an unforgettable, spectral journey of identity, fear, and love.
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##### Vertigo

PG

Mystery

Romance

Thriller

**Release Date**
May 28, 1958


**Director**[Alfred Hitchcock](/person/alfred-hitchcock/)

**Cast**[James Stewart](/person/james-stewart/)
, Kim Novak
, Barbara Bel Geddes
, Tom Helmore
, Henry Jones
, Raymond Bailey




**Runtime**


128




**Main Genre**[Mystery](/tag/mystery/)

**Writers**



Alec Coppel
, Samuel A. Taylor
, Pierre Boileau
, Thomas Narcejac
, Maxwell Anderson




**Tagline**


Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension




## Summary

Traumatized by a fatal incident while on the job, a detective finds himself spending his retirement days in peace and conversing with a female friend of his. An old friend of his hires him to follow his wife whom he feels is doing things behind her back that he doesn't know about. But things take a turn for the bizarre when he falls for her...or so he thinks.


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