Anyone notice the resemblance to Hitchcock's Vertigo?
-Filmed at a national park
-Blonde lead
-Murder scene involving climbing a bell tower
and more. Even the director's style reminds me of Hitch.
Seems way too obvious to be a coincidence.
Also, the scene where Joseph cotton is following Monroe is very similar to vertigo. I remembering reading somewhere that hitch was influenced by this film.
shareAdditionally, Joseph Cotton's character has the uncommon surname Loomis -- the same name as Marion Crane's (Janet Leigh) boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin) in the Hitchcock directed Psycho.
And Lurene Tuttle was in both "Niagara" and "Psycho."
"Psycho" is practically a remake of "Psycho"!
Not.
A definite hybrid of two AH Movies " VERTIGO " and " DIAL M FOR MURDER " ( IMPO ) . Thanks stevezodiacxl5 for your subject post .
shareI can't believe this thread. Both of these Hitchcock films came out AFTER Niagara. Dial M for Murder was released in 1954 and Vertigo came out in 1958. Check your facts first.
shareGreat theory, except this came out five years before Vertigo...
shareIf you mean the resemblance between the two films, with the earlier Niagara providing inspiration for the later Vertigo, you may have something. At least, jseangallagher notes that Hitchcock may have been inspired by this.
Anyway, it would not be the first time Hitchcock had liked something in another film and worked it into one of his own. Directors, including the great ones, do that as much as composers. The famous shower scene in Psycho (1960) bears a strong resemblance to one in The Seventh Victim (1943). The earlier scene has a different outcome, but it achieves an extreme sense of vulnerability and suspense that would not have been lost on Hitchcock.