Scottie does not strangle Judy but he does indirectly cause her death by bringing her back to the tower. Adaptational Nice Guy: The novel ends with Roger Flavières strangling Renée Sourange to death and surrendering to the police.Gavin Elster gets away with murder his counterpart from the original novel, Gevigne, is killed in a German air raid before the audience even finds out about his murder plot. For the record label, see Vertigo Records. If it's the comics company you're looking for, search no further than Vertigo Comics. Not to confuse with the the Video Game that is loosely based of this movie, for that, see Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo. But the ghosts of the past never die, and their consequences prove to be what no one expected. Still haunted by the memory of his dead love, Scottie pursues a relationship with Judy. It turns out that there is one woman who really does look a lot like Madeleine: a sharp-tongued brunette named Judy Barton (Novak again). Even after returning to some semblance of a normal life, he is haunted by his grief for Madeleine, constantly seeing her in women he meets. Scottie suffers a mental breakdown after his love's death, to the point of being institutionalized with a near-catatonic depression and "nursed" by his friend and former fiancée Midge ( Barbara Bel Geddes). Scottie tries to help her out of this apparent madness, but in vain he finds himself watching helplessly as Madeleine plunges to her death from the roof of a mission's bell tower, unable to reach her in time due to his acrophobia. However, Madeleine appears to be possessed by the spirit of her dead ancestor Carlotta Valdes, who is trying to get her to commit suicide. As he observes the beautiful, mysterious Madeleine ( Kim Novak), Scottie begins developing feelings for her - feelings that are reciprocated by her. Having retired from police work, he is persuaded to go back on the job by his old college friend Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), who wants him to trail his wife Madeleine who has been behaving oddly. Jimmy Stewart plays John "Scottie" Ferguson, a San Francisco detective who, because of a rooftop chase which leads to the death of one of his fellow officers, develops a paralyzing fear of heights. Vertigo is a 1958 Psychological Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the 1954 French novel D'entre les morts ("The Living and the Dead") by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
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