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Vertigo

March 15, 2012 By William Robert Rich Leave a Comment

“The gentleman seems to know what he wants,” deadpans a saleswoman in the final act of Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s rich and strange masterwork, as she observes James Stewart’s round-the-bend retired detective monomaniacally outfitting his shopgirl squeeze (Kim Novak) in high-end threads identical to those of a lost woman—the young lady’s spitting image—whose love and life slipped away from him. 1

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  1. Weber, Bill. “Slant Magazine.” Slant Magazine. N.p., 01 June 2011. Web. 14 Aug. 2012. Link. ↩

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