Q 01/05

Which Hitchcock film followed Vertigo?

A) Rear Window

B) North by Northwest

C) Notorious

D) Dial M for Murder

Answer · why

B) North by Northwest

North by Northwest. Hitchcock and writer Ernest Lehman were meant to be adapting the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare for MGM, got stuck, and invente...

Q 02/05

Who plays retired detective John 'Scottie' Ferguson in Vertigo?

A) Gregory Peck

B) Henry Fonda

C) Cary Grant

D) James Stewart

Answer · why

D) James Stewart

James Stewart. Columbia lent Kim Novak to Paramount for Vertigo only as a trade: Stewart had to make Bell, Book and Candle with her for Columbia strai...

Q 03/05

Vertigo was adapted from a 1954 French novel by which writing duo?

A) Boileau-Narcejac

B) Erckmann-Chatrian

C) Souvestre and Allain

D) The Goncourt brothers

Answer · why

A) Boileau-Narcejac

Boileau-Narcejac. An earlier novel of theirs became Clouzot's 1955 hit Les Diaboliques, and Paramount bought this one for Hitchcock before it had an E...

Q 04/05

What is the clinical name for the fear that ends Scottie's police career in Vertigo?

A) Agoraphobia

B) Acrophobia

C) Claustrophobia

D) Aerophobia

Answer · why

B) Acrophobia

Acrophobia. Scottie finds out he has it while dangling from a rooftop gutter, as the policeman reaching down to save him falls to his death.

Q 05/05

Which camera effect was devised for Vertigo's dizzying shots down the bell-tower stairs?

A) Rack focus

B) Whip pan

C) Dolly zoom

D) Dutch angle

Answer · why

C) Dolly zoom

Dolly zoom. Paramount cameraman Irmin Roberts worked it out: the lens zooms in while the camera tracks back, so the stairwell seems to stretch away be...