I first saw this film on black and white television in 1965 at age fifteen. I could not stop thinking about it. I didn’t see it again for several years, this time on color TV. I was more astonished! The colors were so vivid. Kim Novak so beautiful and Jimmy Stewart so typically spellbinding.
Since then, I have seen Vertigo nearly 100 times. Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director, Jimmy Stewart my favorite actor and Kim is dazzlingly gorgeous.
This film is the ultimate in suspense. Every time that I see it, I find something new about the plot. Hitchcock changed the novel in that, while in the novel, the reader does not know that Judy is Madelein, Hitch reveals that fact to the audience. As a result, the audience has a heightened level of suspense in figuring what Scotty will do when he finds out.
A stunning performance is also rendered by Barbara Bel Geddes as the motherly Midge.
There aren’t enough good things to say about this movie. The restored version on DVD is my dream come true. I will go watch it now.

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