James Stewart stars with Kim Novak in director Alfred
Hitchcock’s most delirious
and romantic thriller, filmed extensively in the Bay Area. Scottie Ferguson
is a San Francisco detective, retired from the force due to acrophobia, who
takes on a private case, shadowing a college acquaintance’s beautiful young
wife suspected to be suicidal. Stewart delivers one of his most complex, passionate
and anguished performances. With Barbara Bel Geddes. Music
by Bernard Herrmann.
(US 1958) 129 min.
Part of James Stewart, American Icon
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