Alfred Hitchcock's noirish thriller about a detective hired by a friend to follow his wife, who dies, hinges on an obsessive and controlling relationship that develops between James Stewart's detective, John "Scottie" Ferguson, and Kim Novak's character who resembles the wife and it is hard to swallow, first, that the actor James Stewart plays this kind of weirdo and, second, that Novak's character Judy Barton would allow things to progress to the point that Ferguson does creepy things like dye her hair and dress her up, but innovative dolly zooms and flashing primary colour filters coupled with some Freudian psychology about obsessional love and second chances help turn these problems into trifles in another Hitchcock masterpiece.
★★★★★
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