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until the fuzz busted in. They managed to escape into the night with their instruments, but their pockets were unsettlingly empty. After selling their coats for money, they were cold and desperate, without work in the middle of a Chicago winter.
             Quite by chance word of a well-paying music gig in a warm beach hotel was passed to the two and they decided to try out. The only catch is that they were looking for women. They decided to take their dignity over food and wandered into a parking garage. While tending to their car, they witness the St. Valentines Day Massacre and decide that the warm, well-paying gig didn't sound so bad after all. With the help of some makeup, wigs, and nylons, they join the all-female band under the false names of Josephine and Daphne. They aren't homefree yet. They have to struggle with their instincts and try not to let onto the other girls that they really aren't women at all. Such a task is even harder when the beautiful blonde Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) is always bouncing around. Cupid's arrows infect both men and they fall for Sugar, which further complicates things.
             Vertigo is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most powerful, deep, and stunningly beautiful films (in wide screen 70 mm Vista Vision) - it is a film noir about a doomed romance that functions on multiple levels. The work is a mesmerizing romantic suspense/thriller, an intense psychological study of a desperate, insecure man's twisted psyche (necrophilia) and his search to end his vertigo, and a masterful study of romantic longing, voyeurism, treachery, female victimization and fatal sexual obsession. The film's screenplay, written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor; was based upon the 1954 mystery novel D'Entre les Morts (literally meaning "From Among the Dead" or "Between Deaths") by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The film's theme of play-acting and/or remaking a woman by male domination is also echoed in Greek legend, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmal...

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