![]() In Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock placed the apartment of Jimmy Stewart's character at the base of this hill. ![]() As he tells his friend Midge, he's developed a debilitating fear of heights, leaving him dizzy and unable to sleep.Īn aereal view of Lombard street in San Francisco, known as the world's most crooked street. Scotty slips and is left hanging from a gutter his partner comes to his aid, but tumbles over the edge and falls to his death.Īfter the experience, Scotty, played by Jimmy Stewart, quits the police force. As the action begins, police detective John "Scotty" Ferguson and his partner chase a criminal across the roof tops of San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood, as the city's wide bay looms below. The city asserts its presence from the first frames that follow the Vertigo's opening credits. So as part of our series "On Location," which looks at movies in which place plays a crucial role, we decide to examine how Hitchcock took a story from a French novel and turned it into the quintessential San Francisco movie. ![]() More than almost any other movie, the plot of the 1958 film is woven into its location.īut it didn't begin that way. If you ask people who know the city what movie comes to mind when they think of San Francisco, the most likely answer is Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. James Stewart carries Kim Novak in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |