Vertigo 1958

Poster by	Saul Bass
Directed by	Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by	Alec Coppel Samuel Taylor
Based on	D’entre les morts 1954 novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
Produced by	Alfred Hitchcock
Starring	James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes Tom Helmore Henry Jones
Cinematography	Robert Burks
Edited by	George Tomasini
Music by	Bernard Herrmann
Production company	Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	9 May 1958
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.5 million
Box office	$7.3 million
(This information is from wikipedia.org.)

Vertigo

• Scottie
• First-person point of view
• Trauma

Scottie

The confidence of a lifetime can be suddenly thrown over leaving a kind and capable man more susceptible than he should be, a man whose tenacity as a detective in retirement, becomes obsession.

First-person point of view

The actor’s eyes are our camera, spiraling, seemingly, out of control.

Trauma

If you lose your memory from a bang on the head, they say, another bang will restored it. This is a myth of fiction. Why would we agree that a second shock wouldn’t have the same effect the first one did?