Vertigo

Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, distributed by Paramount Pictures. Kim Novak was borrowed from Columbia for the production, in exchange for a payment of $250,000 by Paramount to Columbia and the agreement that James Stewart would co-star with her in the 1958 Columbia release Bell, Book and Candle. Paramount sourced the 1954 novel D'Entre les Morts by Boileau-Narcejac before it had been translated into English and purchased the film rights for $25,275 in April 1955, and the rights to Vertigo reverted completely to Hitchcock eight years after its initial release.