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Vertigo

Author: Alfred HitchcockJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesHenry JonesAll authors
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA/Universal Home Video, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   VHS video : VHS tape   Visual material : English : Widescreen edView all editions and formats
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A San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia (vertigo or dizziness in high places). He is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife, who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her. When she is later murdered, he becomes obsessed with his desire to re-create her in another woman.
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Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Alfred Hitchcock; James Stewart; Kim Novak; Barbara Bel Geddes; Henry Jones; Pierre Boileau; Thomas Narcejac; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions.; Paramount Pictures, Inc.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm)
OCLC Number: 36618728
Notes: A videocassette release of the 1958 motion picture.
Based on the novel D'entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
"Includes theatrical restauration trailer, the original trailer and behind-the-scenes documentary footage from American Movie Classics."--Container.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Credits: Producer, director, Alfred Hitchcock ; writers, Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor.
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones.
Description: 1 videocassette (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Details: VHS format.
Other Titles: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
Responsibility: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions ; Paramount Pictures.

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A San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia (vertigo or dizziness in high places). He is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife, who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her. When she is later murdered, he becomes obsessed with his desire to re-create her in another woman.
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