Vertigo
1958, PG, 130 min.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.

One of the director’s greatest, if not best, works, Vertigo stands as one of the thrill master’s most psychologically dense and twisted works in which obsession, commitment, and dual identities all merge to create a voluptuous tale of thwarted love. In a recent restoration, the Bernard Herrmann soundtrack was digitized and re-recorded, creating a crisp new musical element that includes sounds and effects not even heard during the original 1958 release.

****½

This article appears in November 15 • 1996 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.