5/28/1958 Vertigo

May 28, 1958.  One of the best movies ever opened on this date.  My opinion, anyway.

Alfred Hitchcock directed from a script by Alec Coppen and Samuel Taylor, based on the novel D'entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.   James Stewart plays a cop whose  acrophobia and vertigo is responsible for another officer's death.  After leaving the force he is asked by an old college friend to follow the man's wife, who is obsessed with a woman who died centuries before...

There are all kinds of holes in the plot.  I don't care.  It's a masterpiece. 

Scottie: One final thing I have to do... and then I'll be free of the past.

Good luck with that.

4/5/1960 Hitchcock meets Armstrong at a corner

April 5, 1960.  On this date Ford Startime Theatre presented "Incident At A Corner," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a short story by Charlotte Armstrong.  A lot of people assume this was one of the shows Hitch directed for his own series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but it wasn't.  I haven't found an explanation of the shift, but in those days AHP was a 30-minute show, and this one ran the full hour.  It was also the only TV show he directed in color.   Knowing the devious mind of the Master there was probably something else going on as well.

Hitchcock had used Armstrong's material before with great success in the movie Strangers on a Train.  They certainly had some common viewpoints, especially about attractive bad guys, and tangled relationships between alleged heroes and villains.  This story, about the destructive power of gossip, among other things, also gave the director a chance to show off Vera Miles, who was appearing in his new film Psycho.

I can't find anyplace where the film is available today.  Any ideas?