Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
The story
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
- plan
- love of one's life
- sense of guilt
- san francisco
- california
- suicide attempt
- obsession
- bachelor
- detective
- necklace
- vertigo
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Stewart
Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson
Kim Novak
Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
Barbara Bel Geddes
Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
Tom Helmore
Gavin Elster
- Henry Jones — Coroner
- Raymond Bailey — Scottie's Doctor
- Ellen Corby — Manager of McKittrick Hotel
- Konstantin Shayne — Pop Leibel
- Lee Patrick — Car Owner Mistaken for Madeleine
- Bess Flowers — Diner at Ernie's (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock — Man Walking Past Elster's Office (uncredited)
- David Ahdar — Priest (uncredited)
- Sara Taft — Nun (uncredited)
- Ezelle Poule — Older Mistaken Identity (uncredited)
- John Benson — Salesman (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written
- Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor
Production
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
