A director whose color palette and direction were unparalleled flexed an even richer tapestry in his psychological mystery Vertigo.
A director whose color palette and direction were unparalleled flexed an even richer tapestry in his psychological mystery Vertigo. With his Everyman muse James Stewart traversing the streets of San Francisco, Hitchcock took his work to dizzying and newfound intellectual and cinematic depths. As Stewart attempts to solve the case of the mystery woman, played with an intimate delicacy by Kim Novak, the two go on an unforgettable, spectral journey of identity, fear, and love.