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                               Vertigo (1958)
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STARS...........: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
DIRECTOR........: Alfred Hitchcock
WRITERS.........: Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor
GENRE...........: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357
RUNTIME.........: 2h 08mn
SIZE............: 6.98 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L5) HDR
BITRATE.........: 6640 Kbps (CRF 15)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English E-AC3 7.1 768kbps
AUDIO1..........: English Original Mono 197kbps
AUDIO3..........: Commentary with filmmaker William Friedkin
AUDIO4..........: Commentary with producer Herbert Coleman and restoration team
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, GER, ITA, SPA, Commentary
SOURCE..........: UHD Blu-ray Remux
ENCODE DATE.....: 2020-09-17


Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) realizes he has vertigo, a condition resulting in a fear of heights, when a police officer is killed trying to rescue him from falling off a building. Scottie then retires from his position as a private investigator, only to be lured into another case by his old college friend, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore). Elster's wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), has been possessed by a spirit, and Elster wants Scottie to follow her. He hesitantly agrees, and thus begins the film's wordless montage as Scottie follows the beautiful yet enigmatic Madeleine through 1950s San Francisco (accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's hypnotic score). After saving her from suicide, Scottie begins to fall in love with her, and she appears to feel the same way. Here tragedy strikes, and each twist in the movie's second half changes our preconceptions about the characters and events.


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