Vertigo (1997)

Vertigo exudes class. This thrilling movie is a through-a-lens-darkly account of one man's obsession with a woman he believes to be dead. No director ever handled James Stewart the way Hitchcock did, and despite sounding increasingly like Larry The Lamb as the hours tick away, the man from Indiana, Pennsylvania gives one of the best performances of his career as John "Scottie" Ferguson, a cop whose terror of heights (the film opens with an absolutely stunning roof-top chase that leaves Scottie hanging by his fingertips) eventually leads him to quit the force. But, instead of languishing in retirement, Scottie winds up playing private eye for rich, debonair school chum Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) and so begins his descent into very murky waters.

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