Vertigo is a 1958 American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir">film noir</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_thriller">psychological thriller</a> film directed and produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a>. The story was based on the 1954 novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_and_the_Dead_(Boileau-Narcejac_novel)">D'entre les morts</a> (From Among the Dead) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boileau-Narcejac">Boileau-Narcejac</a>. The screenplay was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Coppel">Alec Coppel</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Taylor">Samuel A. Taylor</a>.The film stars <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart">James Stewart</a> as former police <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective">detective</a> John "Scottie" Ferguson, who has retired because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrophobia">acrophobia</a> (an extreme fear of heights) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo">vertigo</a> (a false sense of rotational movement). Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_investigator">private investigator</a> to follow Gavin's wife Madeleine (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Novak">Kim Novak</a>), who is behaving strangely.Purchase the music (without talk) at:<a href="http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1605/Herrmann%3A_Vertigo.html">Herrmann: Vertigo (classicalsavings.com)</a>Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!<a href="http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html">http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html</a> staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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Episode 324: 18324 Herrmann: Vertigo

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