![]() Elster, an old college chum, hires Scottie as a private investigator to follow his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who, he says, seems to be possessed by the spirit of a long-dead relative. It is the latent problem that afflicts Stewart’s character during a rooftop chase in the film’s opening scene and results in the death of a fellow officer. The word “vertigo” describes a disordered state of mind, with its fear of heights. The unprecedented length and brooding melancholy of its rich, seductive and complex musical score, by Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975), supports the story’s spiraling morass of lies and deceit. The question, spoken by Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) to retired police detective “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart), is the catalyst that triggers the desperate pursuit of a fanciful ideal in director Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological masterpiece, “Vertigo” (1958). “Scottie, do you believe that someone out of the past - someone dead - can enter and take possession of a living being?”
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