SILVER

Perennially on top 10 lists as one of the greatest films ever made, VERTIGO is Alfred Hitchcock's supreme achievement, the fullest expression of his cinematic obsessions and the one that goes the furthest in pursuit of them. On a leave of absence after his spell of acrophobia led to the death of a beat cop, James Stewart's San Francisco detective accepts an unusual assignment from old college classmate Tom Helmore: follow wife Kim Novak, not because she's cheating, but because she's possessed! The truth is much more mundane, duplicitous and deadly, with Stewart spiraling first into devastation, then revenge-fueled obsession. DIR/PROD Alfred Hitchcock; SCR Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, from the novel "D'entre les morts" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. U.S., 1958, color, 126 min. NOT RATED

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