Vertigo-a-Gogo

It's the height of this artist's expression
Just a flight up the stairs from confession
From the tip of the top

A precipitous drop
To a frightening arc of obsession.



James Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock's very personal Vertigo. Thanks to David and Norm. Image source: Tripod. This verse is only a small part of the For the Love of Film blogathon. Please consider donating to the eminently worthy National Film Preservation Foundation.

It's a Wonderful Life Sentence

There's plenty of fun to be had
for men in a bachelor pad
Fast women and cars
Hot jazz in the bars
This Pottersville isn't so bad


Swinging single Jimmy Stewart gets Gloria Grahame in the alternate reality It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946). What else is the Pottersville sequence but a film noir nightmare?

Fear Window

A fellow was taken aback--

he'd found himself under attack

He'd spied on the lives

of husbands and wives

till one of his neighbors looked back

Raymond Burr returns the gaze of Jimmy Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Rear Window.