More than 800 film critics and experts have named Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller Vertigo as the greatest film of all time

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More than 800 film critics and experts have named Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller Vertigo as the greatest film of all time.

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was knocked off the top spot for the first time in 50 years by Hitchcock's masterpiece in the prestigious BFI Sight and Sound Poll, which has been carried out every 10 years since 1952.

Masterpiece: James Stewart and Kim Novak in a scene from the 1958 film. It was described as 'a dreamlike film about people who are not sure who they are but who are busy reconstructing themselves...'

The 846 cinema devotees picked the thriller which starred James Stewart and Kim Novak, ahead of Citizen Kane which has held top spot in every poll since 1962.


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