![]() In 1996 a new print of Vertigo was released, restoring the original grandeur of the colors and the San Francisco backdrop, as well as digitally enhancing the soundtrack. Here tragedy strikes, and each twist in the movie's second half changes our preconceptions about the characters and events. Consider Warhol’s soup cans or Mondrian’s color fields, or to bring it closer to home Saul. There is a threshold in art and design where a work can become so iconic as to transcend its own scope and become a symbol for its medium. After saving her from suicide, Scottie begins to fall in love with her, and she appears to feel the same way. ) One final thing I have to do and then I’ll be free of the past. He hesitantly agrees, and thus begins the film's wordless montage as Scottie follows the beautiful yet enigmatic Madeleine through 1950s San Francisco (accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's hypnotic score). ![]() Elster's wife, Madeleine ( Kim Novak), has been possessed by a spirit, and Elster wants Scottie to follow her. Scottie then retires from his position as a private investigator, only to be lured into another case by his old college friend, Gavin Elster ( Tom Helmore). At the end, Judy, frightened, accidentally backs off of the church tower and falls to her death. We see her falling, hear a crash, and see her sprawled body on the rooftop in a wide shot. On the surface, it's a love story with a mystery, bright and shiny, maybe his most sumptuous feast of the senses. Judy, as Madeleine, fakes her death and the real Madeleine is pushed off of a church tower. Vertigo (1958) Plot Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Synopsis (1) Summaries A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. Plot in a nutshell: A retired detective suffering from acrophobia takes the case of an old college chum's wife, who may be possessed by the spirit of her great-grandmother who committed suicide many years previous. It opens as Scottie Ferguson ( James Stewart) realizes he has vertigo, a condition resulting in a fear of heights, when a police officer is killed trying to rescue him from falling off a building. Alfred Hitchcock made a career movie with 'Vertigo,' one of several career movies of his, but maybe the most enduring. A tense, dizzying thriller from the Master. Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit.
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