Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783226057
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0783226055
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1998-03-31
Running Time: 128
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1958

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Customer Rating:

Summary: DO NOT BELIEVE THIS IS NTSC!!
Comment: If you go to amazon.co.uk and look up this title you will see that it is listed as PAL (the European standard) NOT NTSC (compatible with the US, Canada etc.).

Not only is this version Region-2 restricted - it will NOT play on a standard US DVD player unless your player can also properly decode and convert PAL video to NTSC.

I do not see HOW these 'sellers' can get away with saying that Region-2 is the ONLY restriction.

The ONLY way to get 'Vertigo' in NTSC Region-1 in Anamorphic Widescreen and properly 16:9 Enhanced (at this time) is to purchase the whole 'Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection' at $95.00.

I already have most of these films so, sadly, I'm going to wait for the Blu-ray release (which they must surely be working on at this time).

Customer Rating:

Summary: Greatness
Comment: Enough things have been said about this great movie, I cannot add anything further, just let me tell you: the scene where Judy comes out from the room dressed as Madeleine, the dreamlike view, the Music, Scotty's reaction, just like he is watching his dead love rise to life before his eyes: is powerful stuff. Just for that short scene this film is worthy of artistic greatness, a masterpiece, something that is rare in this days.
Absolute recommendation for any film buff, some few naysayers claim the movie is slow and the vertigo effect is dated ...yeah sure it is, but does it really matter?

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Summary: Amazing Film!
Comment: This happens to be my favorite Hitchcock film.

The DVD is great. There are interviews and extras galore!

This is considered Hitchcock's most personal film. I never understood exactly what that means, but I think it might have something to do with the fact that almost the entire film is shown solely from Jimmy Stewart's perspective.

This is a movie I watch over and over again. The funny thing is, I have talked to many others who have the same obsessive reaction to it as well.

Give it one viewing, and you will be hooked.

Customer Rating:

Summary: screwie plot
Comment: Kim Novak does fine work here, as usual, but the entire story is way too far-fetched to be believable.
Movie is overrated.
And that ending? Come on. Really?
Pfffft.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Hitchcocks masterpiece?
Comment: This is definitely one of my favorite (and one of the strangest) Hitchcock flick's. It's a brilliant movie and almost a love story in many way's, albeit a very cynical one. The story is about a retired detective (James Stewart) who is affraid of heights that is hired by an old freind to spy on his wife(the beautiful Kim Novak) because he think's...get this....she is possessed by an evil spirit. He end's up falling in love with her and I don't want to spoil to much but like most Hitchcock film's there is a twist, or in most cases a couple twist's. Thing's are never as they appear in Hitchcock film's and even if you think you have it all figured out by the end he alway's leaves a piece of the puzzle out to make it impossible and give you that one last jaw-dropping moment. They don't make em like this anymore and to this day nobody can tell a story quite like Hitchcock. I can't recommend this movie enough and encourage any thriller/suspense fans to check it out.

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Editorial Reviews:

Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the most recent survey. (Universal Pictures' spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerelease of this 1958 Paramount production was a tremendous success with the public, too.) James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife (a superb Kim Novak, in what becomes a double role), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall ("fall" is indeed the operative word) in love and...well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. Shot around San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of the Legion of Honor are significant locations) and elsewhere in Northern California (the redwoods, Mission San Juan Batista) in rapturous Technicolor, Vertigo is as lovely as it is haunting. --Jim Emerson