Hitchcock’s Vertigo Reviewed

Alfred Hitchcock is the legendary director of films such as Rear Window and Rebecca and his classic thriller Vertigo features main protagonists Kim Novak and James Stewart.

It was produced in 1958 and written by Samuel Taylor and Alec Coppel who adapted it from a novel by Narcejac.

The setting is San Francisco bay and features many classic landmarks around northern California including Coit Tower and the Golden Gate bridge. There are also scenes shot in Muir Woods and San Juan Bautista’s legendary mission which has become a major tourist attraction.

The film’s plot is filled with many surprises and moments that will keep you guessing and it is well worth seeing. As a result it has been classed as one of the top hundred movies of all time.

The main character detective John Ferguson aka Scottie develops vertigo after seeing a colleague plummet to his death. Unable to forget the image he retires from the police force, but is asked by an old acquaintance, Gavin Elster, to help with some private investigation work.

This is the catalyst for the driving force of the movie. Gavin asks Scottie to investigate his wife Madeleine whom he fears is losing her mind. She is obsessed with a dead woman named Carlotta Valdes and reenacts the same journey each day as a kind of pilgrimage to Carlotta.

Scottie continues to follow Madeleine and sees her jump into the bay at Fort Point. He prevents her from taking her own life, they form a rapport and she tells him that she is afraid that she is going insane. She has a recurring dream that plagues her.

Scottie knows that this is the mission in San Juan Bautista and thinks that she should face her fear. When they arrive Madeleine tears away from his side, runs up the steps to the roof and he is unable to follow because of his vertigo. He hears her scream and is powerless to act.

He is beside himself with grief. Everyone he thinks he sees her. One day he meets a woman, Judy, who looks exactly like Madeleine. They form a relationship and he has her dress like Madeleine, dye her hair blond and go to the same places they went.

A chilling moment is when he sees that Judy is wearing a necklace from the Carlotta Valdes portrait. Here he makes the connection that they are one and the same woman.

He plans the showdown at the place where Madeleine faked her death. The mission at San Juan Bautista is the climactic end scene and Scottie uncovers that the whole thing was a plot to murder Gavin’s first wife. Madeleine was hired to do this.

In a tragic twist, Judy is startled by a nun at the top of the tower and really plunges to her death. Scottie is now cured of his vertigo.

This movie is suspenseful and all lovers of thrillers and mysteries will enjoy the nail biting plot that will keep you guessing until the end.

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