Alfred Hitchcock 1958 film ends 50-year dominance of Orson Welles masterpiece in BFI's decennial cinematic survey

"It tells a most unlikely tale about a wife-murder, and tells it for more than two hours in style that is slow, wordy and, apparently, casual," sniffed the Manchester Guardian's film critic 54 years ago. To clarify, what he may have meant to say is that Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is nothing less than the greatest film of all time.

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