Vertigo.

San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson retires after failing to conquer his fear of heights and vertigo. Friend Gavin Elster asks Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine, claiming that she is in some sort of danger. Scottie follows her to the Mission San Francisco de Asís and the grave of Carlotta Valdes (1831–1857) and watches her enter the McKittrick Hotel. He rescues her when she leaps into the bay and sees her plunge to her death. He becomes clinically depressed and is in a sanatorium, almost catatonic. One day, he notices

Credits

Cast
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Complete catalog record
VERTIGO. Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions. Released by Paramount Pictures Corp. 128 min., sd., Technicolor, 35mm. VistaVision. Based upon the novel D’Entre les Morts, by Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac. © Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. & Paramount Pictures Corp.; 9May58; LP10837.

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