Adaptation Title Change: The movie is based on a French novel that was called D'entre les morts (literally "From Among the Dead" but localized as "The Living and the Dead").Adaptation Name Change: Only Madeleine Elster has the same first name as her D'entre les morts counterpart Madeleine Gevigne, with Judy Barton (Renée Sourange), note Which, since Renée means "reborn" in French, is a Meaningful Name Scottie Ferguson (Roger Flavières) and Gavin Elster (Paul Gevigne, whose surname is echoed in his counterpart's first name) qualifying for this trope.Scottie does not strangle Judy but he does indirectly cause her death by bringing her back to the tower. Adaptational Nice Guy: The novel ends with Roger Flavières strangling Renée Sourange to death and surrendering to the police.Scottie tries to help her out of this apparent madness, but in vain he finds himself watching helplessly as Madeleine plunges to her death from the roof of a mission's bell tower, unable to reach her in time due to his acrophobia. However, Madeleine appears to be possessed by the spirit of her dead ancestor Carlotta Valdes, who is trying to get her to commit suicide. As he observes the beautiful, mysterious Madeleine ( Kim Novak), Scottie begins developing feelings for her - feelings that are reciprocated by her. Having retired from police work, he is persuaded to go back on the job by his old college friend Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore), who wants him to trail his wife Madeleine who has been behaving oddly. Jimmy Stewart plays John "Scottie" Ferguson, a San Francisco detective who, because of a rooftop chase which leads to the death of one of his fellow officers, develops a paralyzing fear of heights. Vertigo is a 1958 Psychological Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the 1954 French novel D'entre les morts ("The Living and the Dead") by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
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