The woman - named Judy Barton - has a coarser demeanor, a different accent, and (most importantly) wants nothing to do with the retired police detective. Scottie follows the woman into the Empire Hotel and knocks on her door, but when the two start talking, it's clear that this is not Madeleine. Now it seems Madeleine may be on the path to taking her own life. ![]() Working as a private investigator, Scottie comes to believe that Madeleine is possessed by her great-grandmother, Carlotta Valdes, the mistress of a wealthy man who ultimately kept their child but abandoned her, leading her to die by suicide. ![]() Now jobless, Scottie looks toward an uncertain future, but an old acquaintance, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), soon contacts him with a less demanding assignment: to follow his wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), who has begun to act very strangely. Though Scottie survives, he retires from the force, his newfound acrophobia (fear of heights) and vertigo (the feeling that one's surroundings are moving or spinning when they are not) too debilitating for him to continue his work. ![]() When Scottie's leap onto a roof falls a bit short, leaving him precariously dangling from the roof's gutter over a multi-story drop, his partner attempts to save him but loses his balance and plummets to his death. 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.
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