7/3/2023 0 Comments Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac![]() ![]() Haunted by her death, he sees a woman who bears a strong resemblance to the dead woman, however, his attempts to get closer to this doppelgänger ultimately result in tragedy. The detective falls in love with the shipbuilder's wife but is unable to stop her committing suicide by jumping from a tower. The synopsis of the novel is essentially the same as the final film:Ī prosperous shipbuilder hires a former detective who suffers from vertigo to tail his wife Madeleine who is acting strangely. ![]() After negotiations, the film rights were secured for $25,275 in April 1955. Keen to potentially acquire the film rights to any future Boileau-Narcejac stories, Paramount sourced their 1954 novel D'Entre les Morts before it had been translated into English and, after reading the studio's outline, Hitchcock instructed Paramount to purchase the rights. ![]()
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