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  1. Aug 22, 2021 · The Vertigo plot begins with a harrowing action sequence. We follow detective John “Scottie” Ferguson (played by James Stewart) in the midst of a rooftop chase. He slips and a fellow officer reaches down to help him, but Scottie is paralyzed with acrophobia and the other officer falls to his death.

  2. Oct 6, 2024 · Vertigo's ending explained. In the final scene, Scottie (James Stewart) has discovered that Judy (Kim Novak) is actually Madeline and was part of a murder plot. To cure himself of his vertigo, Scottie forces the duplicitous Judy to reenact the murder. Judy resists all the way up the stairs, even telling Scottie she loves him.

  3. Oct 26, 2021 · Vertigo (1958) – Ending Explained. The big plot twist in Vertigo is that Madeleine did not die. Actually, the real Madeleine did die, but her impersonator (Judy) did not. So, the first half of the story was just all part of Gavin Elster’s big plan to murder his wife.

  4. Jul 19, 2024 · Vertigo’s plot has three layers, which interweave intricately at three specific points in the movie, all of which hinge upon the chronic fear of heights suffered by police detective John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson. The first, most basic layer is found in the opening scene, which causes Scottie to acquire his phobia after he sees a colleague fall to his death.

  5. May 5, 2016 · An acquaintance named Gavin Elster hires Scottie, now a private eye, to follow his wife Madeline (played by Kim Novak) and find out why she’s acting so strangely. From there on, you get classic ...

  6. Jul 13, 2021 · The film begins with policeman John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) and another officer in hot pursuit of a criminal on the rooftops of San Francisco. When Scottie's leap onto a roof falls a ...

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  8. Mar 4, 2024 · Santanu Das March 4, 2024. Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) is now considered the greatest film of all time according to the critics that voted in the British Film Institute’s 2012 Sight & Sound poll. The survey, which is compiled once a decade, saw Hitchcock bumping Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, which had held the spot for 50 years.