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64 P E R S P E C T I V E | S E P T E M B E R / O C TO B E R 2 0 1 6 reshoots VERTIGO (1958), starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes was not a huge box-office draw, nor did it gather the critical praise that many of Alfred Hitchcock's other projects did. Still, the film has found its way onto a number of lists of classic cinema, driven in large part by Henry Bumstead's striking designs. Mr. Bumstead uses detective Scottie Ferguson's acrophobia— fear of heights—to stunning visual effect as the story builds, turning what could have been a typical murder mystery into a tragic and compelling romance. The production photograph above of the stage set which imagines the terrifying interior of the bell tower at California's Mission San Juan Bautista takes the viewer inside Scottie's fearful mind and echoes the vertigo that forces him to witness the death of two women, each of whom fall...or are thrown... from the top of this same tower. Mr. Bumstead was awarded the first of his four Oscar® nominations (along with Art Department Head Hal Pereira) for VERTIGO, and went on to receive the ADG Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Guild's Hall of Fame.