Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958)

Title:

Vertigo / Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2012]

Description:

1 videodisc (128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

wide screen 1.85:1

laser optical NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Series:

Alfred Hitchcock collection

Alfred Hitchcock collection.

Subjects:

Boileau, Pierre, 1906-1989 -- Film adaptations.

Vertigo -- Drama.

Murder -- Drama.

Police -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama.

Love -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Genre:

Detective and mystery films.

Fiction films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Coppel, Alec.

Taylor, Samuel, 1912-2000.

Stewart, James, 1908-1997.

Novak, Kim.

Bel Geddes, Barbara.

Helmore, Tom.

Jones, Henry, 1912-1999.

Bailey, Raymond, 1904-1980.

Corby, Ellen.

Burks, L. Robert, 1909-1968

Tomasini, George.

Head, Edith.

Boileau, Pierre, 1906-1989. D'entre les morts.

Narcejac, Thomas, 1908-1998.

Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975.

Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions.

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.

Based on the novel : D'entre les morts / by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.

Special features include: Obsessed with Vertigo: new life for Hitchcock's masterpiece, directed and produced by Harrison Engle for American Movie Classics; commentary with associate producer Herbert Coleman; restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz; production notes; theatrical trailers; foreign censorship ending; the Vertigo archives.

Director of photography, Robert Burks ; edited by George Tomasini ; music by Bernard Herrmann ; costumes, Edith Head.

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; dual-layer format; anamorphic widescreen presentaion (1.85:1 aspect); Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo and 2.0 mono.

English; with optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles.

National Film Registry selection, 1989.

ISBN:

0025192143342

Publisher Number:

61122484

61182076

Other Number:

809794252

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

630758

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Vertigo