Obsessed with Vertigo

Oct 4, 1997

0h 30m

★ 7.0

Overview

A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated by Roddy McDowall, with behind-the-scenes talk from Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Bumstead, Robert A. Harris, Patricia Hitchcock, James C. Katz, Kim Novak, Peggy Robertson and Martin Scorsese. Brings fresh perspective, not just to the film and the director, but to the Fifties Hollywood as well.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Signal Hill Entertainment

AMC Studios

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Cast

Narrator (Voice)

Roddy McDowall

Self

Patricia Hitchcock

Self

Robert A. Harris

Self

James C. Katz

Self

Henry Bumstead

Self

Herbert Coleman

Self

Kim Novak

Self

Barbara Bel Geddes

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self

C.O. Erickson

Self

Peggy Robertson

Self

Samuel A. Taylor

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

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