Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary thriller stars James Stewart as a detective who tails a cool, glamorous woman around the equally glamorous San Francisco of the 1950s, but his fear of heights prevents him from saving her life. Obsessed with the dead woman, he stalks, meets, and manipulates a suspiciously similar-looking, if somewhat lower-class woman (Kim Novak), who inexplicably falls for him even though he demands she change her identity to match his fantasy. Shot in Technicolor as lurid as its plot, Hitchcock’s masterpiece is based on the novel D'Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.