Full Definition of SWAG. 1. : sway 1. 2. a: something (as a decoration) hanging in a curve between two points: festoon b: a suspended cluster (as of evergreen branches). 3. a: goods acquired by unlawful means: loot b: spoils, profits.
Both aloof and sensual, Kim Novak was cast by Hitchcock in Vertigo after original actress, Vera Miles, left due to pregnancy. Novak played the dual role of Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster, who becomes the sole obsession of acrophobic police detective John Scottie Ferguson (Stewart).
5. 1986âs Psycho III was directed by Norman Bates himself â Anthony Perkins â who clearly felt that he needed to include as many nods to the original story (and to Hitchcock) as possible. The film opens with an homage to Vertigo â a nun stands at the top of a church bell tower, about to commit suicide.