• Feature Film

• Type: Film

Vertigo is an American feature film by an English director, Alfred Hitchcock. Retired police detective John Scottie Ferguson (played by James Stewart) is hired to follow Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak) through the streets of San Francisco. The film is based on a 1956 crime novel, The Living and the Dead, by Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud. The book was originally publish, in French, as D'Entre les Morts in 1954. - AsNotedIn

Other San Francisco Locations

Sanatorium, at 351 Buena Vista Avenue East
Ernie's Restaurant (Closed) 847 Montgomery Street
Brocklebank Apartments, 1000 Mason Street at Sacramento Street
Hotel Empire now called Hotel Vertigo, 940 Sutter Street, between Hyde Street and Leavenworth Street

Places

• 17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach Setting and Filming Location of Madeleine Elster's Beach
• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Boulder Creek Filming Location
• Crooked Lombard Street, San Francisco Scottie Ferguson lives at 900 Lombard St.
• Fort Point National Historic Site, San Francisco Setting and Filming Location
• Legion of Honor, San Francisco Setting and Filming Location
• Mission Dolores, San Francisco Setting and filming location for the grave of Carlotta Valdes
• Mission San Juan Bautista, San Juan Bautista Filming Location
• Muir Woods National Monument, Golden Gate North - Golden Gate NRA Vertigo is set in Muir Woods but filming took place at Big Basin Redwoods State Park
• Nob Hill, Scottie Ferguson tails Madeleine Elster
• San Francisco, California Setting and Filming Location
• San Juan Bautista State Historic Park, San Juan Bautista Exterior Filming Location for Plaza Stables and Plaza Hall courtroom