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Scottie follows her through the streets of San Francisco, as she visits a flower shop and purchases a small bouquet. She wears a simple gray suit with white gloves, as she gets into her green automobile. The next morning, he stalks her outside her house. Scottie first spots Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak) who is stunning, with platinum blonde hair, a black dress and a green shawl. Ernie's Restaurant is a lavish, upscale eatery, plush and scarlet. Gavin invites Scottie to observe him and his wife at Ernie's Restaurant the following night. The no-nonsense Scottie initially dismisses the supernatural undertones of Gavin's worries, but is nevertheless intrigued. She's become distant and distracted and has taken to roaming the city and surrounding area. He does not suspect infidelity, but hints that his wife has been possessed by something. Gavin married into the business, and he wants Scottie to tail his wife. Scottie meets Gavin, who is in the shipping business. He is able to handle the first two steps, but when he reaches the top, he looks out the window down into the street below and panics. Scottie attempts to gradually get over his fear of heights by using a step stool. They discuss an old college buddy, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), who wants to meet with Scottie. "Don't be so motherly", responds Scottie. Scottie blithely waves their engagement off as a flight of fancy, ended by Midge, but it's clear from Midge's expression that Scottie was more likely the unwilling party and that Midge still holds a torch for him. Midge and Scottie used to be engaged back in college, but it was broken off. He has retired from the police force due to his acrophobia, and does not want to be a desk jockey. She is concerned about Scottie's plans now that he is back in shape. Months after the incident, Scottie reclines in the home of Marjorie "Midge" Wood (Barbara Bel Geddes), a painter and fashion illustrator. Scottie witnesses this as he clutches the gutter. The police officer tries to help him and asks for his his hand, but the officer slips and falls to his death. Scottie hangs on to the gutter as his fear of heights kicks in. The police officer follows, but Scottie can't get his footing. The thief jumps between two buildings, making it across. They chase him across the top of buildings. John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart), a detective, and a police officer are hot on his trail. A criminal climbs up the rungs of the ladder to the rooftop on a dark San Francisco night. A woman's face gives way to a kaleidoscope of credits, signaling the start of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to Bernard Hermann's haunting score.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. What happens between John and individually with Madeleine and Judy is affected by the reason John took that early retirement: a recent workplace incident that showed that he is acrophobic which leads to a severe case of vertigo whenever he looks down from tall heights. The initial question that John has is if there is some connection between Madeleine and Judy. Judy is a working class girl, but what makes John obsessed with her is that, despite her working class style and her brunette hair, she is the spitting image of Madeleine, into who he tries to transform Judy. The second is Judy Barton, who John spots on the street one day. The first is wealthy and elegant platinum blonde Madeleine Elster, the wife of his college acquaintance Gavin Elster, who hires John to follow her in Gavin's belief that she may be a danger to herself in thinking that she has recently been possessed by the spirit of Carlotta Valdes, Madeleine's great-grandmother who she knows nothing about, but who Gavin knows committed suicide in being mentally unbalanced when she was twenty-six, Madeleine's current age. 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.įollowing his early retirement as a detective from the San Francisco Police Department, John Ferguson - Scottie to his friends - becomes obsessed with two women in succession, those obsessions which trouble his long time friend and former fiancée, Midge Wood, a designer of women's undergarments.