rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1958
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; produced by Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay by Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Hitchcock. There is nothing more to say. For me this is the best Hitchcock.
I loved Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, but this one tops them all.
The story is so great and I almost can't say anything about it without
spoiling it a little. A couple of things I can say are that John Ferguson
(James Stewart) is afraid of heights due a thing happened a while ago. He is
asked to spy on the wife of an old friend of him. John once was a detective
so he knows how to do that. The wife, played by Kim Novak, is acting a
little strange lately so it must be in her benefit. Of course he falls in
love and this is only where the story starts.
You will never be bored. The acting from Stewart is good as always and Novak
is great. Hitchcock does a great job with his directing, but that is
something we all knew before watching the film. There are some nice
camera-tricks which I liked very much. The score by Bernard Herrmann also
does a great job supporting the whole atmosphere of the film. This is one of
the best Hitchcock's and you just have to see it.