When the two meet again in Vertigo, Kim Novak's character introduces herself as Judy, and while she looks much different than Madeleine now, Scottie is quick to see the resemblance. Since Scottie ...

“Vertigo”–which is about a detective (James ... Scottie seems to find his love again, in the person of Judy Barton (also played by Novak), an equally lovely but outwardly brash and cynical ...

In the final shot, he’s again gazing down at a lifeless body: the corpse of Judy, now unveiled as the duplicitous lover who caught him in a web of murder and deceit. On the surface, Vertigo is a ...

It was never more apparent in Vertigo, with the Madeleine/Judy role, hiding in plain sight was the truth behind Scottie's mystery. After several trips to buy new cloths and make-up (or rather her ...

“Vertigo” is so brilliant because it realizes that this situation is fucked for every party involved. Scottie is a pawn in Gavin Elster’s plot to murder the real Madeleine, a silly fool who was sucked ...

When Scottie discovers the truth, he angrily drags Judy back to the bell tower, where his vertigo is cured but she falls to her death. That ending especially — Scottie alone on the precipice ...

Thanks to the internet, the world is full of people crafting fake identities: Judy and Elster were simply ‘catfishing’ before the term was invented. And that’s why Vertigo is so horrifying ...

Judy will never be Madeleine, Stewart’s detective Scottie will never be cured, “Vertigo” will never be real, your DVD of “Vertigo” will never be “Vertigo,” and the McKittrick Hotel ...

He sees Judy fall to her death, but seeing that fall isn’t what cures him of his vertigo. He has already had the shock of realizing that his lust had turned him unwittingly evil—thus he is ...