One of the very best of Hitchcock. 1958. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
After hanging from a roof top and seeing a police falling to the ground and dying, John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) starts suffering from vertigo every time he's looking down from hights. This makes him quit his job as a detective.
But when a man with whom Scottie went to college with, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), asks for his help, Scottie agrees to help. Gavin wants Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), who's been acting very strange. Gavin is afraid that she'll kill herself.
When he's following her, Scottie learns that Madeleine is obsessed with a dead woman called Carlotta Valdes who died a long time ago. Madeleine visits Carlottas grave, old home and a musuem where a painting of her is hanging. What's the secret that Madeleine is hiding?
This movie is amazing. Absolutely amazing. James Stewart is maybe a bit too old, but I don't care. He's so good in this movie that it doesn't matter if he's looking a bit too old for Kim Novak who's a young beauty with dark secrets in this movie.
When I saw this movie for the first time, I found it absolutely amazing, and I still do. Almost every little scene in this movie is perfect. Creates suspense. When you think that's everything is solved, then it all turns and the exitement increases.
Scottie's obsession is really unpleasant sometimes because you don't know if he's mad or smart. Kim Novak is good in her part as the confused Madeleine, or is Madeleine really Madeleine? Psychological thriller filled with suspense. Also contains the cool dolly zoom that creates a feeling of vertigo for the people watching the movie.
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