Q 01/05

In what year was Hitchcock's Vertigo released?

A) 1958

B) 1954

C) 1963

D) 1960

Answer · why

A) 1958

It arrived between The Wrong Man and North by Northwest, and was only a modest earner on first release.

Q 02/05

Who plays retired detective John 'Scottie' Ferguson?

A) Gregory Peck-Hollister

B) Henry Fonda

C) Cary Grant

D) James Stewart

Answer · why

D) James Stewart

Hitchcock later blamed the film's soft box office on the 49-year-old star looking too old opposite a 24-year-old leading lady.

Q 03/05

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

A) Boileau-Narcejac

B) Gaboriau and Leblanc

C) Sartre and Camus

D) Simenon and Japrisot

Answer · why

A) Boileau-Narcejac

Hitchcock had wanted their earlier book too, but Henri-Georges Clouzot got it and made Les Diaboliques.

Q 04/05

What was the English title of the source novel D'entre les morts on its 1956 translation?

A) The Fall of the House of Usher

B) The Living and the Dead

C) She Who Was No More

D) From Among the Dead

Answer · why

B) The Living and the Dead

Paramount had commissioned a synopsis in 1954, before any English edition existed.

Q 05/05

Which Paramount second-unit cameraman actually devised the dolly zoom for Vertigo?

A) Irmin Roberts

B) Gregg Toland

C) Wally Pfister

D) Robert Burks

Answer · why

A) Irmin Roberts

He went uncredited; the shot has since turned up in Goodfellas and The Lord of the Rings.