![]() ![]() ![]() The story will be familiar to fans of the film starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, though Hitchcock transposed the book’s action from Paris and Marseilles to San Francisco. Hopefully, the original novel will now enjoy a similar revival as it is reissued by a new crime and mystery imprint from Pushkin Press, which has named the new series Pushkin Vertigo after the first book to appear in it. Following a critical reevaluation, it replaced Citizen Kane as the best film of all time in the 2012 British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound critics’ poll. Hitchcock’s psychological thriller is now recognised as one of the best films of the 20th century, although it had mixed reviews at the time and only received two Oscar nominations in technical categories. While an Alfred Hitchcock adaptation was always a coup for any author, ultimately the master’s movie tended to overshadow the book – and that is certainly the case with Vertigo (1958). ![]()
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