Vertigo (11/11) Movie CLIP - Judy Jumps (1958) HD

[@egeerkol6635]

1:56 Scotie feels no dizzy or acrophobia In the first 10 min of the movie, Midge said: "I asked my doctor. He said that only another emotional shock would do it, probably wouldn't." Well played, Hitchcock. Well played

[@spaceace4387]

Yep, they foreshadowed the ending in the second scene of the movie and we didn't even realize it.

[@doxazo5512]

My theory is that Madeline's "suicide" actually snapped him out of it. He wasn't in a position to feel it until he returned to the bell tower, where he made it up with Judy just fine, and his agitation can easily be explained by distress over her betrayal.

[@andres6868]

in the final scene, looking down, Scottie is cured of his vertigo

[@roxas3124]

@@andres6868 For me it's certainly a happy ending, Scottie has cured of his vertigo. It's the first problem that Hitch poses to us.

[@andys325]

He no longer feels vertigo because he has reached the bottom. The vertigo is a metaphor for his unstable mental state of mind

[@kellyb4]

There’s my great grandmother Sara Taft playing the creepy nun. Love it.

[@the_infinexos]

Oh really? Congrats!

[@the_infinexos]

@João Mané I was congratulating her on having a relative play a non-background character role in a movie? Seems like simple logic

[@جلادالروافضوألسلول]

@João Mané that Judy ,racked with guilt, interprets the sudden appearance of a nun as Madeleine's ghost ... he has such psychic dominion that Judy thinks that she sees the ghost of Madeleine!.

[@murthymedandraoa1234]

That's very great to participate even a small role in such a marvelous film...you are fortunate to be a grandson Sara Taft mom...

[@keretaman]

That is awesome. Congrats!

[@civilwarfare101]

That nun popping up scared the shit out of me.

[@kingskid1985]

That nun rose up like a shadowy ghost from hell. Terrifying moment...

[@georgekuiper3223]

@@kingskid1985 Stewart should have thrown the nun down

[@dr.winstonsmith]

Scared Judy too, to death.

[@danimal111ify]

It's the perfect ending. He thinks she died the first time, and this time she actually does. It's a story of love lost, and lost again. They're both punished for their sins. Scottie is left alone for eternity, obsessed with a romantic ideal. And the saddest part is that Scottie had the very same woman, right there, in front of him, but was unable to love her the way he loved "Madeleine". The ending is perfect. They have to go back up the tower. Madeleine/Judy has to fall, again. It's perfect.

[@КСТААДАПОЛУЧАЕТСЯТАКНУЧТОЖОСТА]

the idea of such ending is obvious,symbolic and good,but explain,did she jump accidentally because she was scared of nun?Cause it seems like this,and it's pretty clumsy

[@gnorn3607]

And Gavin Elster gets away with it!

[@J.Carstens]

bro could just go back to Midge at any time 😭

[@IcyScythe]

this movie has such a creepy atmosphere. Like I feel slightly sick watching it.

[@LeWildSister]

IcyScythe i knoooow i felt it too

[@superking7135]

Like the viewer’s own personal vertigo

[@DoctorWu23]

It’s is a sickening film. Scottie completely loses himself in his obsession with a woman who never existed. Judy allows herself to be consumed by his feverish desire in a desperate attempt to make him love her. It’s gross and sad.

[@plutoshearer3650]

It's also haunting, especially the ending.

[@szaman4180]

That's how you know it's a good movie

[@gregscorzo1365]

Watching this now, I can’t help but feel like the film is about Judy having to face up to the fact that she’s not a victim of Gavin. She’s one of the villains. She’s partially responsible for a murder, psychologically destroying the man she loves, and then wanting him to be her boyfriend in the hopes he won’t put two and two together. When Scottie conquers his Vertigo and looks down at dead Judy, it works as a metaphor. He’s seeing who she really is: the woman responsible for Madeline Ferguson falling from that very same tower. And before that when he kisses her, he’s not really kissing Judy. He rejected her by that point. He’s kissing the illusion of Madeline, one last time. Judy falls because of her guilt and paranoia. She thinks the nun is Madeline’s ghost.

[@Jojoateyt]

That scream is so... chilling...

[@bentonxavier5094]

when screams used to sound more intense

[@DoctorWu23]

It’s blood curdling, reminds me of a certain part in the third season of twin peaks.

[@zoobee]

its an extraordinary, truly haunting movie.

[@ercm2393]

Alfred Hitchcock was truly the greatest filmmaker of all time. His work is like a beautiful painting. So well put together.

[@songbirdy]

No one seems to get it how horrible Scottie was being to Judy by making her change her style to fit Madeline. It was cruel. But as someone pointed out here, the audience wants to bring her back too, so we go along with him. Someone also posted it would have been a better movie if the audience found out the same time Scottie did who Judy was. At first I agreed. But if Judy hadn't written that letter and the audience had thought she was just some poor young girl, Scottie would have appeared much more cruel to her and his intentions would have seemed macabre, we wouldn't have felt for Scottie at all. And Judy wouldn't have been able to explain herself on anything, as far as her love for Scottie, there wouldn't have been any sympathy for any of them, except maybe Midge. Hitch knew his business.

[@Generationsoundtrack]

I think so too. Also from a storytelling point of view. Hitchcock always said that dialog doesn't matter. He likes pure cinema which means that the image itself should always tell us something. All the dialogue scenes after her "first dead" were so exciting because we knew that she was hiding something. And we understand why she does all that stuff for him because she already fell in love. Sorry, my english is not the best.

[@PossessedbyPhoenix]

***** Haha quite true. Being a TV Troper when I saw him make her dress like Madeline all I could think was "Values dissonance! Values dissonance!" Although his even colder behavior towards her later is a bit more justified despite being sad, since to his eyes Judy was complicit in the murder of the woman he may have loved (despite never knowing the real deal), leaving room for interpretation and debate.

[@songbirdy]

No, they really don't, or didn't. For one, it's Jimmy Stewart. Oh sure, on an intellectual level, we get it, but as far as really accepting it in our minds, I really don't think we do. If we did, we wouldn't like him but we do. We want Madeleine back too, Stewart is a nice guy (literally), partly, for these reasons, we over look what he is actually doing. Plus we give him a break when we realize Judy has played him but we even forgive her because she fell in love with him. Still, having the audience know midway that Judy is Madeleine really works to downplay his cruelty. It's why the script had to be rewritten, in the original I've read they were frustrated that none of the characters played sympathetic to an audience. And true, since the movie has had a renewed notoriety it is discussed more and people get it now, but back when it wasn't so popular when it first came out, I really don't think people got much of any of it. There was just too much to take in.

[@Generationsoundtrack]

***** Excuse my bad english.. But to me it often feels like the character you give the most time on screen will always have the sympathy of the audience. Even when I watch Goodfellas or Casino I kinda want De Niro to succeed even though he's a real asshole. Same thing I have with Jesse Eisenberg in "the social network" or DiCaprio in "wolf of wall street". Of course, on an intellectual level I get it, but I feel with them.

[@Generationsoundtrack]

***** And apart from movies I experience the same phenomenon with Kanye West :D

[@brandenb.branden4796]

i love the way he says the line "you shouldn't have been that sentimental." the pain is so palpable. one of the best deliveries i've ever heard.

[@pitstopchr]

1:30 literally had me scared shitless with goosebumps all over me. This is such an immersive and phenomenal film.

[@JDP2104]

The nun's silhouette gave me wraith vibes

[@86mickster]

Definitely chillworthy no matter how many times you see that scene! Brilliant, captivating movie!

[@carsonwall2400]

Even for Hitchcock, it's on another level

[@janakakumara3836]

It was not the nun, it was her own guilty conscience.

[@Generationsoundtrack]

"Bernard Herrmanns music... doesn't hurt it." Scorsese.

[@duustii1]

Its in my top 3. Right next to Once Upon a Time In America and Godfather 2

[@Eziokilla9595]

A perfect ending to a perfect film.

[@frname7665]

+Eziokilla9595 *frustrating ending for a perfect film. Damn, I wanted the girl to live...

[@davidpar2]

+Frname I did too. But I would say "frustrating ending" is the most fitting ending to this story

[@frname7665]

davidpar2 You're probably right haha

[@hall9111]

Didn't you see the movie? She was a murderer.

[@absurdrhino]

Eziokilla9595 I thought the ending was shit

[@marcodangelo84]

Boy, what a movie. What a movie.

[@Tusc9969]

how weird..at the end after she falls and he's looking down with his head tilted and hands spread, he looks exactly the same way he looked when he was falling in his nightmare he had.

[@princessroxas1]

that's some great foreshadowing

[@owenpolanich1462]

I also noticed this nice catch

[@songbirdy]

Even Hitch's daughter said it was a movie not everyone gets fully the first time, so everyone here going "hmm" or "no, it's because of this or that," you are all actually doing what most people do when seeing this movie. There's a lot going on in it and it's totally overwhelming, which is great, an excuse to rewatch it. I love Jimmy Stewart and of course the camera loves Kim Novak, you cannot take your eyes off of her. That is part of her star power along with the fact she could actually act.

[@ragejoona431]

My favorite movie of all time. A lot of people make fun of how it ends so suddenly, but I think that if the ending would've dragged itself any longer, it would've been ruined. All we need is knowledge of the fact that Scottie doesn't know what to do anymore. That final shot where he stares down and realises that he has lost her again, that's all we need. It's so full of sadness. It's also a complete mystery what Scottie did after this. Did he fall into madness again? Could he continue living knowing that he's lost her again, or did he commit suicide. There was an alternate ending where after this we see him return to his apartment where Midge was waiting, but Hitchcock only shot it because the studio insisted. But after he left it out of the picture, he pretended that it didn't exist, so we can all conclude that Hitchcock didn't think of it as canon.

[@bookerjones8123]

It's definitely not canon, although it was interesting to watch. Aside from the fact that it was assumed audiences would need everything all tied up neatly, the rule in those days was that a killer had to be punished--but without that discarded scene (which has the radio talking about Madeleine's husband being pursued for her murder) he gets off scot-free. It is strange in terms of what we expect from this kind of noir-ish movie that the killer and the "good girl" the hero SHOULD be with are just abruptly dropped; normally they'd both be involved in the plot right up till the climax. But after Scottie finds Judy, "standard" movie dramatics are abandoned; they exist in a little bubble together and barely interact with the world at all, except for waiters and hairdressers, dressmakers, etc. I think that's the reason that some people have theorized (wrongly, I'm sure, but it's interesting) that everything that happens after Scottie is committed to the sanitarium is a dream.

[@КСТААДАПОЛУЧАЕТСЯТАКНУЧТОЖОСТА]

explain,did she jump accidentally because she was scared of nun?Cause it seems like this,and it's pretty clumsy

[@Morgetiud]

@@КСТААДАПОЛУЧАЕТСЯТАКНУЧТОЖОСТА she didn't know it was a nun, she probably thought someone was there to kill her for being 'exposed'. Of course it was just a knee jerk reaction that made her back up and accidentally fall, she didn't have time to process the shadowy figure.

[@dr.winstonsmith]

@@КСТААДАПОЛУЧАЕТСЯТАКНУЧТОЖОСТАI think it’s supposed to be she jumped from guilt after mistaking the shadowed nun for Judy’s apparition.

[@carina_huang]

I’m super late here but I see what you mean! I was doing film studies in class and the teacher mentioned that the bonus scene was only shot because of the Cold War and Hitchcock was asked to give the story an ending where the villain is punished and true American justice served as a way to promote the ideal image of the US- he never wanted to have that ending so I see why it’s thought of as optional

[@angelgirl8533]

He finally lost his vertigo.

[@kaspafischer]

but lost the one he obsessively loved too... sucks

[@Hi-ig]

@@kaspafischer He obsessively loved the idea of her

[@davidsmith-hb1jx]

"You shouldn't have been that sentimental" love how at that second he realizes what a fool and monster he had become because he had immersed himself in the sentimental idealized love of a dead person that never even existed.

[@ischultz25]

James Stewart's face from 0:50 to 0:53... gosh he was an amazing actor

[@gnosisi]

the nun emerging from the darkness symbolizes the damnation itself... bears a lot more meaning that it is portrayed as a nun..pure genius..

[@StarfishFuuko]

"You shouldn't have been that sentimental," his line always makes me start crying. ):

[@lonestar6709]

He lost his Vertigo. Along with everything else. A far more quietly devastating ending than 'The Mist' could ever be.

[@Dacre1000]

@@AxelStorm I don't think he was talking about the situation but of the filmmaking. Of course, as good as Darabont is, it is a bit unfair to compare him to one of the true giants of movie making.

[@livkivi]

I couldn't help but laugh. His face was like: "Oh shit I killed... again. Darn..."

[@Star_Joker]

Mate, my Film Studies class laugh everytime we watch this scene. It's so bad that it's good.

[@soda1850]

I've always seen this as her falling, like the nun frightens her and she turns to run but forgets where she is and falls to her death - hence the scream. And I imagine that Scottie either jumped down after her or became an insane man for good, never fully recovering from what he'd been through. One of the most chilling movies i've seen and truly a masterpiece is all I can say.

[@maximusw01]

The ending really shocked me

[@redbirdcraig1]

This is the final scene in all the movies I've ever watched. Beautifully acted, gorgeously shot. The way Stewart's face is framed, almost ghostly and disembodied, is masterful.

[@FandomQueen33]

I just watched this movie in my Narrative Cinema class, and I was shocked by this ending!

[@samanthanyarko9166]

One of the most iconic endings of all time.

[@williamh3566]

The music rises to a climax then suddenly stops. In the silence a hunched shadow rises to the top of the stairs and stands there staring at Judy (and us). It’s one of the great images in all cinema, and contains everything you need to know about why it made Judy throw herself off the tower.

[@williamanthony9090]

She didn't throw herself off the tower. In her fear at seeing what she thought was Madelyn's ghost, she turns to flee, forgetting exactly where she is, and falls. If she had thrown herself off the tower, there would have been no reason for her to scream on the way down.

[@spenser9908]

I prefer the alternate cut where he turns back from the ledge and shakes his head lightheartedly at the nun and remarks, "Y'know, you guys should really put a guard rail here." The nun folds her arms and says, "Now ya tell me." Then there's this nice playful music and the credits roll.

[@nancyann4309]

Nuns don't walk like mules. She came up the steps, she was old and probably just about made it, hearing the voices and Kim Novak seeing the black nun's attire, got scared and backed off and fell. This is one of Hitchcock's greatest movies. This and Marnie.

[@manofmywords240]

As much as I love and adore this film, the last shot could have been edited better. It felt rush and that quick cut scene to where the nun says "God have mercy" felt too tacky.

[@صلاحعاصم-ي5خ]

عملنا نسخة من هذا الفيلم مصرى إسمة الوهم بطولة محمود يس ونيللى وكان اروع من هذا الفيلم

[@Q.Gold30]

Hi Nancy

[@michaelbruns449]

Haunting and sublime, perhaps the best movie ever made, by the greatest film director the cinema has ever produced.

[@12classics39]

Kim Novak’s final scream is one of the most bloodcurdling in cinematic history!

[@justglynman]

One of those endings when your girlfriend says "I don't get it"

[@JayToor89]

😂 Watching again on here because my wife didn't get it 👍

[@Dacre1000]

@@JayToor89 At the wedding, after she says "I Do" and the priest asks you if you want her as your wife, just say "I don't get it" turn around and walk away. Pay the organist to play the Vertigo theme at that moment. Like a boss.

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

i love the last shot how it pulls back like that and then Scottie steps out of the doorway to look down at the horror below, with the music is just so perfect, ironic and horrifying.

[@_PeaceSim]

Perfect movie. Perfect ending.

[@Achiez-z]

Someone just died! God have mercy... What the fuck??? No emotion, nothing.

[@amarsbarr]

Lol nuns don't usually react witu emotion, they are always grounded in thought and and feeling and always gather their knowledge wisely helping others. A normal nun wouldn't react to deaths and murders, they would just provide guidance and wisdom :) about what next...

[@MyNameBaboo]

Kim Novak is so pretty.

[@Q.Gold30]

She is my favorite, the glass make you look adorable

[@elenadeja8529]

In the end he looks down and his body assumes the same position it had when it was falling during the nightmare. Creepy!

[@sidviscus]

That scream is the most bone chilling sound I've ever heard.

[@GA-1st]

I've seen it countless times. It gets to me each effing time.

[@CoolsBreeze]

Too many sad moments in this movie. The evil husband that had Madeline killed, the tragic downfall of Scottie and his increasing obsession that will truly never heal, and the death of Judy hence there will never be a happy ending between the two.

[@sergividal661]

Broke my heart this ending

[@Benjaminthemighty]

And Midge was sad.

[@Benjaminthemighty]

Everyone's life was completely destroyed in this movie.... :(

[@CoolsBreeze]

@@sergividal661 It was pretty brutal. I saw this film for a college film class and it hurt me watching the ending. It stayed on my mind for several months... And then the cherry on top the murdering husband gets away with murder too...

[@danimal111ify]

People, she's scared and she falls. She sees a dark shadow. Some people say she thinks it's Elster. Other people say she thinks it's the ghost of Elster's wife. It doesn't really matter why she's startled, Hitch left it ambiguous. But the fact that it happens to be a harmless nun is the ironic icing on the cake. The point is that Scottie is left with nothing and nobody. The woman he loved falling out of his life, yet again.

[@CoolsBreeze]

First time I saw this movie I was like "Wow that's brutal!"

[@Dacre1000]

The only movie where the same woman dies on the same guy twice.

[@thenostalgiakid1]

Sometimes I wonder: If Judy didn't die, would Scottie try to love her or just try to transform her into becoming Madeline again?

[@TheWolfSaidPoofy]

Tywin Lannister I think that part of wanting to transform her into Madeline was to figure out if he could reach some sort of conclusion. Let's not forget that he is a former detective and when Judy asks him if transforming her would do anything for him he replied in an "i don't know" fashion. His dialogue here and reaction also invokes that he has been thinking about this and the puzzle is now complete. My point being that his wanting to transform her was more rational than some may think, if Judy didn't die i think that he'd try to love her and not go back into the state of delusion that he was supposedly in.

[@thenostalgiakid1]

RealPolitik Well, he did say that it's too late... But he did kiss her, so that's a plus.

[@skipperallen9872]

+Spore I disagree but your point is great, I believe Scottie subconsciously had an idea that Julie was really the faked Madaline, there are lookalikes in this world but , but he held this women , kissed her and fished her out of the bay, strip her naked etc....his subconscious clued him in, but his heart wanted to believe she was innocent because of his love/ obession , even thought she lured him to murder the Real Madaline, where he was powerless to prevent this women death, again his condition lead to someone demise( cantonic major quilt) In Transforming her into Madaline he can resurrect HIS fake Madaline, erase the quilt, and have the women he loves.. what's sad is he transforms her into a dead women and she OK with this to keep him in love with her. He tells her she shouldn't keep sovernair of a killing , but he did the same thing when he transform her into murder victim again.

[@joshmaxin7188]

Tywin Lannister Judy didn't die she was saved by Clarence and showed that it's a wonderful life

[@mohamadmahmoud6926]

Tywin Lannister the kiss implies they would of tried again though Scottie didn’t love Judy, he loved Madeline. But then again, depending if Scottie was mature enough to handle how his obsession with the person “Madeline” was for nothing, he probably still did harbor feelings for the true Judy. It’s tough to say but the ending makes these questions moot.

[@redbirdcraig1]

And I forgot Hermann's score- the best in movie history, IMHO.

[@skatefreak654]

this is my ALL TIME FAVORITE HITCHCOCK MOVIE HE ROCKS!

[@jdjdjdjd4999]

What an ending 💀

[@929DEMPSEY]

I think it is also in part because of when she's writing that note to Scottie she says that part of the story was made up and part of it was real. Because when they go into that barn she said that the nuns used to scold her, which could be part of the 'real' element of the story. Just a thought.

[@williamandres1042]

For me this ending saved the movie, the movie was good until this happened, then it becomes a great movie (a little bit slow in some parts, to be honest) What a tragic ending, it makes you feel so uncomfortable and I love it.

[@roo7227]

Wrong, wrong, wrong.. There's nothing cruel about Judy's fate.. She willingly entered into a confidence game to deceive Scotty.. According to her, she did not know it would lead to death, but that doesn't change the fact the her actions led to another's wrongful death.. Further, when presented the opportunity to reveal herself, when she meets Scotty again, she continues to lie to him.. Now, Scotty has issues too, and we can discuss those too, but the context that Judy is innocent is wrong..

[@danimal111ify]

I absolutely agree. this is indeed the greatest movie ever made. at least top 5. people that get it love it enormously. a lot of others don't really see what's so amazing about it. I pity them. it would suck to dislike the greatest movie ever produced. it would be like hating pizza.

[@SoulStorm892]

your explanation is the most convincing and logic. In any case how to suggest other users i think that the center of the scene is not Judy but Scottie. The final fade out is on him, you didn't even see judy's body... what you can see clearly is a man on an edge that lost everything althought he had a second chance: twice doomed. Vertigo: doesn't matter if he gived up or could reach the top of bell tower, she'd be dead in any case... sad fate!

[@krazyking45]

I understand that she fell and was going through lots of emotions in the moment, I just feel like she should have been closer to the edge to make it more obvious that she did indeed fall.

[@amarsbarr]

This is the only film I've seen twice in one day I was that impressed by it and I was only 17.. ending shat me up big time what a scare haha

[@NDHFilms]

I'll never forget being ten or so and being scared out of my wits by the nun emerging from the shadows. It really does feel like the Grim Reaper's coming for her.

[@oracle787]

Great scene. He's in love with a woman who never existed. 'You shouldn't have been that sentimental' is all he needs to say to realise that.

[@GSE2009]

I think the ending actually leaves a lot open for interpretation. People look at it and think the ending cures his fear of Vertigo, which, yes, it does as he doesn't seem dizzy or look for the nearest object to cling on to at the sight of how high above ground level he is. But my personal take on it is actually that he commits suicide himself, as the movie events have taken such a toll on him, his love for Madeleine, only to lose her which made him sick, and then he finds judy and has this obsession into making her look like Madeleine, realising that is in fact her, only to lose her again at the same place, only this time for good, when everything seemed to be coming to a close. If you look at his stance with the way his arms are positioned just before the credits roll and he's looking down, it strikes a similarity with the nightmare vision he has of his illustrated character falling from the top of the bell tower. His arms are spread wider there, but that is as he is falling down, it is almost as if that is his stance before he plummets to his death. This film is for me, the best film ever made and nothing captures me in with an atmosphere quite the way this film does. It's so mysterious and you find new things all the time on repeat viewings. For me it's the darkest of Hitchcocks films, and very tragic. No happy ending that's for sure, but my take on it is that he throws himself off so that he can finally be with Madeleine for good.

[@skipperallen9872]

I think your analysis of the film is spot on. .when he was having his nightmare dream sequence his stance was the same, and he was falling, the dream that drove him into a catatonic state in the mental institution. There is an alternate ending that doesn't support this though I have the remastered DVD.. Vertigo when it came out was not well recieved, because the hero had a weakness, and cracked up. Mental illness, being flawed was not discuss among the general public when this came out In 1950s ...Now it toppled Citizen Kane as the Best American movie ever made. Scottie (Jimmy Stewart ) was one of the first completely flawed heros, he suffered from vertigo, had an obsessive love for Madaline ,and he really went insane. Tops to Hitchcock for bring Mental illness out in the open. with Marnie ( childhood trauma and duel personality ), Psycho (Again childhood trauma and Mother Complexs that leads to Psychotic murders )Vertigo ( a fear of height with Obession that lead to a catatonic espisode) Stranger on the Train (Bruno is sociopath ) Hitchcock understood the state of the human mind is easily broken.

[@KalidRobledo]

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[@gino2868]

If it wasn't shown in the film, then he didn't kill himself. The fact that you are having fun with theories should not make you want to think they have any ground on reality. The film fades to black suddenly after she falls simply to show that loosing her all over again means the end of his life as he knows it, yes, but not literally. His entire world suddenly destroyed, and this time possibly without recovering emotionally, is what Alfred left us with. That doesn't mean he jumped. The dream was just to play with his fear of that dreaded scene who haunted him, and to symbolize that part of him died with the first time he lost her. But, again, I don't think he jumped. But I have to agree it was such an amazing movie that it will stay with me forever.

[@vidimur1977]

You are right. He will committ suicide himself. To that people who deny it: look his face closely. Thank you for your insight, Okio.

[@vincentsartain3061]

@okio ko, interesting analysis, but I don't agree. First, if Scottie jumps to his death, Elster gets off the hook for killing his wife (the REAL Madeline.) Once a cop, always a cop! Scottie will see this thing through and Carlotta's pendant is the key that will unravel Elster's "perfect murder." And it wasn't just the fact that Elster murdered his wife and made it look like a suicide, and made Scottie look bad for his inability to prevent it, but that Elster and his machinations had pushed Scottie past the breaking point with his mental health. Do you really think Scottie is going to kill himself and let that bastard go on his merry way in life? No, this is justice and it's also PERSONAL. Scottie will share everything he now knows to the authorities and Elster WILL be brought to justice. Second, Scottie now realizes that the woman he loved didn't really exist. He fell in love with A CHARACTER that was invented by Elster and portrayed by Judy. This is why, in the last moments between Scottie and Judy, he tells her "it's too late." Judy was a murder accessory after the fact. She kept quiet about the murder for a whole year! During that time, a completely devastated Scottie was vegetating in a sanitarium, falsely blaming and loathing himself for Madeline's death on top of the other death for which he blamed himself (the uniformed officer in the prologue.) There can be NO foundation for any relationship that springs from illusions, lies, and cover-ups. Scottie may go to his grave still loving and mourning the now deceased Judy, but he knows the relationship would have never worked even if not for Judy's fatal accident. Third, with his own form of self therapy, Scottie and Judy ascended the bell tower, in his fleeting hopes that he could "put the past behind him" at long last, and forge ahead, even marry her. But, ah, there's still the nagging question of that damned pendant! Why on earth would Carlotta's pendant be in Judy's possession if something WASN'T smelling rotten in Denmark? Fourth, Scottie's suicide is out of the question because he conquered acrophobia and its accompanying vertigo. Suddenly, Scottie is once again the man he used to be before that fatal rooftop chase in the film's beginning; his eyes are open at last to the fact that he was played for a patsy by Judy, under Elster's orchestration; he now has the ability to vindicate himself professionally and as a man and can once again look his brother police colleagues in the eye; and if anything, he's now perhaps stronger than ever before! Yes, he's in pain and sorrow over Judy's sudden fatal accident, but to just throw himself off the tower is to let a man go free who had killed his wife and used him (Scottie) to divert all suspicion of spousal homicide, was directly responsible for Scottie's mental breakdown, and even indirectly to blame for Judy's death which wouldn't have happened if not for the intricate, elaborate, and malign web that Elster had woven! Finally, now that "the old Scottie" is back, his reputation restored, it's far from inconceivable that he'll rejoin the force; and, who knows? Maybe he'll go to the only woman who ever really gave a damn about him (Midge) and see where life takes him and Midge from that point on. PS: We seem to have forgotten that the source material for VERTIGO was a French novel, which I haven't read, but your theory that Scottie will quickly commit suicide probably won't hold up if this wasn't the fate of the protagonist in the book.

[@Sdfghjk442]

There he stands, cured of his vertigo but broken in pretty much every other aspect.

[@davidcawrowl3865]

Stewart's head in the final few frames is revealing: as if to say "Why me?" He is looking upward, or on the verge of doing so. He could even possibly be contemplating suicide at that moment--by throwing himself off. The genius of ending the movie without resolving these questions leaves the viewer in an existential quandry. The mark of a great movie is whether it causes you to think about it further. Vertigo was certainly not a forgetable film.

[@Entity-tx7if]

I used to think that Hitchcock's movies had too many happy endings. When I saw this scene for the first time, I felt really depressed and kept thinking, "How stupid, why did he have to end it like this?"

[@ChadMasonFilms]

+Entity 303 In the original script, Scottie ended up having a lighthearted drink with Mitch in her apartment in a final scene after this. Hitchcock wisely nixed it, feeling it undermined the point of the film. He was influenced by the endings in Film Noir and French Nouvelle Vague cinema too.

[@eddie12454]

One of the truly great movies.

[@danimal111ify]

she gets startled by the nun and falls accidentally (although maybe jumps, some stipulate scottie is about to follow). hitch never make clear what she's so afraid of. many say that she thinks it's the ghost of Elster's wife. a big theme in the movie is the dead coming back to haunt the living. so that theory would fit right in, although it's never explicitly stated.

[@ThePeytonator1138]

Such a brilliant movie!

[@laggingboy2520]

Just saw the movie. What a tragedy

[@JosephSivits]

oh my goodness we watched this in film class and when the nun came out I went "ahhHhHh" and I felt so embarrassed the color on this clip is so bad 🤬

[@mathieubyron2038]

She technically “falls” doesn’t “jump” as this videos title suggests

[@realkingofantarctica]

Hitchcock always end his films like a play.

[@Tyler-nc4px]

Hmm. Can you explain your point?

[@benlong4277]

Well there's one thing for sure, he ain't getting her back now.

[@bearforceone689]

Great movie but the problem with the ending is there would be more evidence that Scottie killed Judy to mimic Madeline's death than there would be that Gavin murdered his wife, who would ever believe Scottie's story? and after the way he forced Judy to remake herself in Madeline's image the Police would probably think Scottie was the insane one.

[@no288]

That just make Gavins plan so perfect. Who would believe Scotties story. I can't see how he would ever prove Gavin was involved in all of this.

[@davidpar2]

The nun was there to witness what actually happened; who wouldn’t believe a nun’s testimony?

[@terrorrama587]

I remember the first time I seen that ending my mouth drop to the floor like "no F***ing way! They didn't do that!"

[@Distress.]

I don't understand how everyone in my class criticized her for falling. If they actually put some thought into the movie they would understand that so much stress and so many emotions are running through Judy's mind in this scene. Even if I wasn't guilty, I would've gotten freaked out by a dark figure walking up towards me.

[@slye1991]

I screamed SOOOOO loud when the nun appeared at the staircase.

[@davidganderson870]

I just finished the movie and it was so beautiful but the ending makes me so sad :( I don't think I'll ever be able to watch it again knowing how depressing the end is. I just have this sick pit in my stomach

[@murielleladouceur6414]

Nun : ''We really need to put a fence over that door''

[@WitoldBanasik]

I love the movie... but the final nun scene is out of the proportion ... hilarious and sarcastic at the same time...100% Alfred Hitchock and only witty and full of compassion and full of composure Steward could act like that.. amazingly convincing in his disbelieve. Just hilarious and grotesque scene, like our life my YT movies afficionados...Cin cin cheers chreers....

[@Latwata719]

I AGREE 100%. We are represented by Scottie in the film as he is " enraptured" by Madeline we are too. When he loses Madeline, we lose her too. When he finds Judy and tries to recreate Madeline, we are along side him. So, when he learns of the GREAT deception, we too should have learned about it at the same time.-it would have been 100 times more dramatic. In a way, it was anti climatic. However, as you wrote, it is a great movie and Hitchcock knew what he wanted.

[@pinkdolly]

And just like that, Judy becomes the perfect ghostly unattainable dead woman

[@Q.Gold30]

Hilarious

[@JohnWesleyDowney]

Shame on movie clips. Even the title is a spoiler. Do they have to put up the final scene in which everything comes to an end? Yes, I KNOW it's a 1958 movie, but new generations are constantly coming along who don't know what happens. A huge part of the enjoyment of this classic is the gradual discovery of what's going on. Honestly, couldn't they have found one other scene to use?

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl]

They look up clips of movies they never watched just to see why they're considered great.

[@SeaTac411]

As much as I love this movie, I think the editing is off at the end. It feels like there was one shot that got cut out that threw off the timing of the music.

[@afishcalledwanda]

The nun ringing the bell right after Kim Novak fell outa tower, has an unintentionally hilarious side.

[@johndowney8774]

Only for the juvenile. I found it poignant.

[@afishcalledwanda]

@@johndowney8774 You Americans find everything "poignant" if it only has something to do with religion. That too, is somewhat hilarious =:)

[@johndowney8774]

@@afishcalledwanda what an idiotic statement. The census just told us th ere are 331 million Americans and we all react the same way to the topic if religion? That's an utterly brainless generalization.

[@danimal111ify]

AFI named it the number 9 greatest ever. sight and sound ranked it number 2. so, a lot of people feel the same way you do.

[@rodrigomo2011]

Que terrible final.Tal como se podía esperar de Hitchcock. Cuando El maestro unía el suspenso, el terror y además el Amor. Y el espíritu de Carlota le jugó en contra a Madeline. El espíritu en una desafortunada alucinación. La monja aparece como alma en pena, pero es la redención finalmente. Y se hace una justicia dolorosa. Después que se ha confesado que había AMOR. El amor mata finalmente a la bella. Qué joya del Cine. Me deja siempre... Vertigo, con un llanto atrangantado en mi garganta. La he visto 20 veces. :(

[@vegetasolo1221]

AFI's 10 Top 10 #1 Mystery

[@The1Thrashmaster]

Judy is conscious of two things before the nun appears: 1) She does not want to fall off the tower. 2) She is looking for comfort from Scottie. So when she is startled by a frightening sight, she moves *away from Scottie* and *toward the edge of the tower*? She doesn't just stumble backward. She actually turns around (1:37) and runs for more than a second before we hear her scream. This is a contrived way for Hitchcock to punish his characters. In reality she would cling harder to Scottie.

[@existentialbread4746]

The only thing I hate about this scene is the Nuns bland delivery. "God have mercy" ...seriously, someone just died!!

[@JOEYdaMUSH]

CMON Movie Clips...Judy doesn’t “jump” she FALLS 🤦‍♂️ smfh

[@burnsbrightlyproductions989]

I feel like Judy jumped because when she saw the nun, she feared the wrath of God and felt tremendous guilt and like she needed to die for her sins. No, I'm not religious. I'm just saying that's what I think was going through Judy's mind.

[@johndavis550]

best movie I ever saw!

[@NakedTongues]

one of the greatest films ever made with a pretty horrible premise that a guy would put so much into a crime with a reliance on the flimsy notion that Stewart would fall apart the way he does however it's still the best Hitchcock ever and if you buy the premise then it's flawless and perfectly cast what possessed Hitch to favor Shadow of a Doubt over this just shows he really didn;'t know what he had

[@skipperallen9872]

Actually he didn't care about Scottie one way or another he just wanted his acrophobia to hinder him from following Julie up the stairs, to solidify that his wife Madaline was completely mental and committed suicide. Scottie mental illness came from his love for her. The husband probably wasn't aware of that.

[@classiclife7204]

Death, tragedy, inescapable hopelessness. The End Be sure to watch James Stewart and Kim Novak again in "Bell, Book, and Candle", playing soon at this theater! Also starring Jack Lemmon as "the warlock"!

[@the_infinexos]

"On a scale of Michael Bay - Alfred Hitchcock, how good of a movie director are you?"

[@tuberaxx]

Huh?

[@johnnysampa]

She is not jump, she felt.

[@JOEYdaMUSH]

Vertigo...cured.

[@javier123-y9p]

Sometimes the best ending is a bad ending

[@danielrc14]

When the nun showed up it freaked me up really hard for some reason.

[@kamilla1960]

I wish....Elster had shown up at the end and it was he who ended up falling from the bell tower!!

[@gnorn3607]

Fun fact: the Hays Code at that time said that murderers could not be allowed to get away with their crimes. Hitchcock did film an additional final scene where Scottie and Midge hear over the radio that Elster has been arrested in Europe. Thank God, they were allowed to leave it out.

[@austinvanderlyn]

While this is one of the greatest movies ever made, I always thought they should have deleted the scene where Judy writes the letter then tears it up. I just always thought it would be more dramatic if people found out she was Madeline at the same time Scotty did, when the camera zooms in on the necklace. Just my opinion

[@draganap9223]

agreed

[@ragejoona431]

Dragana P - Just think about it. If we would've found out about when Scottie found out, think how much the audience would've grown to hate Scottie when he started to change her. By telling us at that moment that they are the same person, was Hitchcock's way of making us feel more sympathy for Scottie when he's re-creating Madeleine out of Judy. And also for building up his trademark suspence for the moment when he figures out that what's really going on.

[@Will-xt9gj]

RageJoona You’re spot on I agree 100%

[@Snakecrossing]

This is my first thought as well. The suspense lessened because the big mystery was answered. I believe it was the original ending anyway but Hitchcock decided to switch the tone from thriller to character study. There were plenty of clues for the audience that there was something off about Madeline's death and Judy acted like a guilty person.