![]() ![]() It happens in the same church where the initial staged suicide takes place. The scene of Judy’s inadvertent death is tragic and ironic, yet also weirdly poetic. Even though Madeleine's possession was a ruse, the situation was likely so terrifying that Judy convinces herself that spirits and ghosts are real, hence her fright over the nun's silhouette. Judy makes this backstory part of her act when she begins posing as Madeleine around Ferguson. He became obsessed with the idea of Madeleine and transforming his new girlfriend, Judy, to be more like the image he built in his mind.Įarlier in the movie, Elster and Judy concoct a ruse to make it look like Elster suspects that Madeleine is possessed by the spirit of her great-grandmother and mistress of a wealthy man, Carlotta Valdes. Ferguson never truly recovers from the shock of seeing the initial staged "suicide" in the middle of the film. The memory of the woman Ferguson believed was Madeleine haunts and tears him up inside. ![]() But on the other hand, Judy's role in the murder conspiracy cannot be forgotten. On one hand, the audience hopes that Ferguson and Judy can escape this outcome and live happily together. It's an extremely harsh, dark, and tragic ending, yet it's also the appropriate one. Ferguson can do little but watch as he experiences the tragedy of watching the woman he loves fall to her death for the second time, as the nun rings the bell at the top of the tower. The dark figure was only a nun who was investigating the noise being made by Ferguson and Judy. The dark figure frightens Judy, and she falls to her death from the tower. Ferguson appears to accept her proclamation, and the two embrace, but a dark figure soon appears walking up to the top of the bell tower. She also claims she loves Ferguson and begs for his forgiveness. In the process, it appears Ferguson's acrophobia has been cured, and taking her to the top of the church tower coerces Judy into confessing her role in the murder conspiracy. After Ferguson pieces together what happened, and who Judy is, he takes her back to the church where the faked suicide took place. Judy goes along with Ferguson's wishes because she genuinely fell in love with him. Ferguson encourages Judy to alter her appearance to look more like the Madeleine he fell in love with. After he's released from a sanatorium, he locates a young woman, Judy, who appears identical to the Madeleine he knew, not realizing that Judy was Elster’s accomplice. McKittrick Hotel The Henry F.The shock of the supposed fake Madeleine's death sends Ferguson into depression. Scottie Follows Madeleine - 4 Lincoln Park to the Western Addition Scottie Follows Madeleine - 3 Mission Dolores to Palace of the Legion Of HonorĪrt Gallery and The Portrait Of Carlotta Palace of the Legion Of Honor, Lincoln Park Scottie Follows Madeleine - 2 Claude Lane to Mission DoloresĬemetery, Mission Dolores, Dolores Street between 16th and 17th Streets Scottie Follows Madeleine - 1 Brocklebank Apartments to Podesta Baldocchi Flower Shopįlower Shop Alley Ashburton, off Grant Avenue between Sutter and Post- Claude Lane, near Sutter Street and Kearny Street- 239 Kearny Street's Rear Entrance in Claude Laneįlower Shop Podesta Baldocchi, 224 Grant Avenue, Union Square Madeleine's Apartment Brocklebank Apartments, 1000 Mason Street, at Sacramento Gavin Elster's Office Bethlehem Shipyards, Illinois Street and 19th Street, Potrero Point Midge's Apartment 298 Union Street at Montgomery Street Rooftop Chase The rooftops of 1302 to 1360 Taylor Street - 1329 Taylor Street (where the camera was) The mystery deepens when he cannot resist once again imposing himself on her. After succeeding in saving her from a suicidal jump into San Francisco Bay then failing to save her, because of a vertigo attack, from a fatal fall at a California Mission, he is almost catatonic with grief until he sees a woman on a downtown street who looks remarkably like Madeleine (Novak, again). ![]() She leads him all over town and beyond and appears to be possessed by the spirit of her great grandmother, Carlotta Valdes. ![]() Obsession is the key word here when he is drawn not once, but twice, into the suffocating embrace of a beautiful woman.ĭetective Scottie Ferguson (Stewart) is hired to trail Madeleine (Novak), the wife of an old acquaintance, and report back on her strange wanderings. The confusion of James Stewart 's character Scottie is perfectly captured as he follows the entranced Kim Novak 's Madeleine around the vertiginous streets of the city. Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has been a huge audience favorite since it premiered in San Francisco at the Stage Door Theater at 420 Mason Street on May 9, 1958. ![]()
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