Alfred Hitchcock"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." That was the goal of our twisted directing genius, Alfred Hitchcock (source). We'd have to say that he succeeded. Whether scar...

Alec Coppel and Samuel TaylorVertigo is based on the 1954 novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, D'entre les morts, translated into English as The Living and the Dead. Paramount was hot to ge...

Paramount StudiosVertigo was produced by Paramount Studios—you know, the guys with the mountain logo. Founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company, Paramount's now the longest running movie...

Vertigo was filmed in color, in VistaVision, the wide-screen format Hitchcock preferred.Location, Location, LocationSan Francisco, here we come. Scottie follows Madeleine all through the city and t...

Vertigo's score was composed and orchestrated by Oscar and BAFTA winner Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann had a stellar career in film composing, working with directors from Orson Welles on Citizen Kane (...

With his larger-than-life status as the "Master of Suspense" and maker of countless classics, Hitchcock has a huge cult following.We don't just mean geeks and freaks who show up for summer screenin...