![]() ![]() The movie has eclipsed the French novel that inspired it, “D’entre les morts,” or “The Living and the Dead,” by Boileau-Narcejac (the pen name for writing partners Pierrer Bolieau and Pierre Ayraud). ( Variety recently ranked “Vertigo” 32nd in its list of the 100 best films ever made.) In 1982, in a survey of the best movies ever made by the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound publication (conducted every 10 years), “Vertigo” cracked the top 10, and continued to climb the list, reaching the number one slot in the 2012 survey. But by the 1980s, it started to gain recognition as a masterpiece. ![]() “Vertigo” was not a smash success when it was first released in theaters, and it divided critics. After he’s hired to tail an acquaintance’s wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), Scottie becomes obsessed with her, but his fears renders him powerless to save her when she climbs the tower of a Spanish Mission and plunges to her death. The original “Vertigo” starred James Stewart as John “Scottie” Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective who retires due to a paralyzing fear of heights brought on by a severe case of vertigo. ![]()
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