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Directed by:
Alfred Hitchcock 
Written by:
Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor from Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's novel D'Entre les Morts
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| Released: |
1958 |
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| Genre: |
UNDERRATED
THRILLER
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
128 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| | | Alfred Hitchcock, who produced and directed the thing, has never before indulged in such far-fetched nonsense. | | | | | (John McCarten, New Yorker) | | | Technical facility is being exploited to gild pure dross... [The film] pursues its theme of false identity with such plodding persistence that by the time the climactic cat is let out of the bag, the audience has long since had kittens. | | | | | (Arthur Knight, Saturday Review) | | | The old master has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story, in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares. | | | (Time) | | | At the risk of sounding slow-witted, I must complain that Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo was a little too difficult for me. I had to concentrate so narrowly on the labyrinth of the plot that I never broke out in the cold sweat which is the emotional reward of a good thriller. | | | | | (Robert Hatch, Nation) | | | The trouble, I think, is that the ideas which Hitchcock pioneered have since been made commonplace by imitation: great close-ups of an eye, or half an eye, or the corner of a quivering mouth, or a hand holding a pistol, or hair-raising chases up high places. All this amusing Hitch-poppycock is no longer exclusive to him. | | | | | (Daily Mail) | | | Tricksy... Vertigo has its moments, all right, but between them stretches a lot of wasted time. | | | | | (Philip Oakes, Evening Standard) | | | A film in which character and theme are unimportant, and which therefore relies heavily on plot interest. Unfortunately in this case, the plot is an involved one. | | | | | (Monthly Film Bulletin) |
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, Midge ................. Barbara Bel Geddes 
