Mystery · Romance · Thriller
American
1958 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 128 min
A San Francisco detective, retired after an incident that left him with a crippling fear of heights, is asked by an old friend to follow his wife, who seems to be haunted by something. What begins as a routine job becomes a slow, dreamlike fixation. Hitchcock's most personal thriller works as much as a love story as a mystery.
Why it matters in cinema history
A late peak of the classical Hollywood thriller, made just as the studio style was loosening, and a key text for later auteur theory and psychological cinema.
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