Notorious and Vertigo

Vertigo is a 1958 film American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. The film was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor, based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. A retired police detective who has acrophobia, is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to unravel the mystery of their peculiar behavior. The film received mixed reviews on the initial release, but has enjoyed much success since then and is now often ranked among the best films ever made, and often cited as a classic Hitchcock film and one of the defining works his career. [1]

Notorious is a 1946 film American thriller directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. It was filmed in late 1945 and early 1946 and was released by RKO in August 1946.

Notorious Hitchcock is a milestone for artistic and represents a more mature theme, biographer Donald Spoto writes that "Notorious is, in fact, Alfred Hitchcock, the first attempt at the age of forty-six to take their talent to the creation of a story serious love, and his story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this stage of his life. "[1]

The film is known for two scenes in particular. In one of his most famous hits, [2] Hitchcock begins width and height, in a second floor balcony overlooking the great hall of a large mansion, slowly tracks and Ingrid Bergman, finally ending with a tight close up of a key in the hand. So stop shooting an outline of the key is turned into a graphic element in the promotional material for the film. Hitchcock also devised "a famous scene [3] that circumvented the prohibition of the Production Code in kisses more than three seconds, making his players off every three seconds, breath and nuzzle each

During a police chase across the rooftops of San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) almost fell and discover their latent acrophobia (fear of heights). When his partner (Fred Graham) tries to save him, slips and falls to his death in the eyes of Scottie. After the incident, Scottie decided to retire from police work, but a well-known school called Gavin Elster (Tom ...