One of the thriller masters' classics.
Plot Outline: A San Francisco detective suffering from vertigo investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
From the San Francisco Chronicile: "Perhaps the less people know about ``Vertigo,'' the more it can be appreciated. Its mysteries are beautiful and pained, to be savored. In its dark heart, the film is a sorrowful contemplation of love and the veils that manipulate sexual passions. It is a taste of romantic obsession, of flirtation and deceit. And it is a cold rumination on voyeurism, the heart-racing but somehow twisted excitement people feel when they spy on others. Aren't moviegoers voyeurs?
``Vertigo'' is the coolest study of dizziness ever made, and the theme is laid out in the stunning gimmickry of its opening titles by Saul Bass, which depict spinning images through which an eye peers -- the eye of the voyeur, the eye lost to longing for hopeless, unattainable beauty."
``Vertigo'' is the coolest study of dizziness ever made, and the theme is laid out in the stunning gimmickry of its opening titles by Saul Bass, which depict spinning images through which an eye peers -- the eye of the voyeur, the eye lost to longing for hopeless, unattainable beauty."
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