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Vertigo influenced Shutter Island
Added by Media Influence Map · 27 September 2026
The evidence
Martin Scorsese has said he screened film noir and Hitchcock for the cast and crew, Vertigo among them, and the film's treatment of a detective undone by grief and by an obsession with a dead woman is Vertigo's. Filed LOW: the story comes from Dennis Lehane's novel, and the Hitchcock debt is in the telling.
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