This is the real bell tower at the Mission in San Juan Bautista. Movie fans may puzzle over where Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart climbed, but the iconic tower featured in the climax of Hitchcock's Vertigo existed only as a Hollywood set. The original tower that inspired the movie scene was demolished well before the 1958 film.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Vertigo
This is the real bell tower at the Mission in San Juan Bautista. Movie fans may puzzle over where Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart climbed, but the iconic tower featured in the climax of Hitchcock's Vertigo existed only as a Hollywood set. The original tower that inspired the movie scene was demolished well before the 1958 film.
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