Who Shot Who
Vertigo was a fairly recent picture (although doubtless already inaccessible to all save the members of film societies with budgets and projectors) when I bought these postcards in 1962. I wish that I had one that showed the Brocklebank Apartments, which stood just next door to our hotel, the Fairmont. (It still does.)
One can almost see Madeleine Elster and Scottie Ferguson buying flowers and stealing into the Mission Dolores. Or would that be Judy Barton and Scottie Ferguson?
It was common knowledge that the threat of earthquakes precluded the erection of tall buildings.
I'm crazy about this view. Take Mother Nature, add houses in a wild variety of period styles (that Tudor!) and a world-famous prison, and top the whole thing off with a cable car. Funiculi! The Cliff House does not appear in Vertigo, but there's something about this shot - it's full of Hitchcockian menace, don't you think? - makes me wonder why.
Comments
Ahh, Vertigo. Did anybody besides me remark what fantastic clothes James Stewart was outfitted with in that movie?
The color balance in these postcards feels alot like that of Vertigo.
Posted by: Max | February 12, 2005 07:25 PM
Max, vous avez raison. The colors are completely Hitchock. That may be why the postcards seemed so weirldy attractive this morning - despite their being so obviously boring.
Posted by: R J Keefe | February 13, 2005 01:00 AM