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Scottie drives with Judy back to the old mission bell tower, where he has hidden Madeleine's gray suit. He forces her into it and pushes her ahead of him to the tower, ordering her to climb. This time, Elster is not waiting at the top, and so there is only an old nun to witness as Judy plummets for a second time to her death.

Scottie drives with Judy back to the old mission bell tower, where he has hidden Madeleine's gray suit. He forces her into it and pushes her ahead of him to the tower, ordering her to climb. This time, Elster is not waiting at the top, and so there is only an old nun to witness as Judy plummets for a second time to her death.

==Criticism==

==Critical Reaction==

When ''Vertigo'' was released in 1958, Hitchcock reportedly described it as "the greatest film ever made, bar none", surpassing even the same director's earlier ''Psycho''. However, despite a few rave reviews from other director-critics such as [[Francois Truffaut]], audience reaction in the years to come was mixed. Some criticized what they saw as the film's overtly [[Christian]] imagery (the monastery sequence, the climactic bell-tower scene in which Judy/Madeleine's fear of a nun causes her death, Scotty's outstretched arms in the final shot recalling the [[Crucifixion]]), but the main complaint was simply that the film's plot was too complicated and convoluted for the sensibilities of the age. It was not until the advent of the "New Filmography" in the late 1970s, with such complexly plotted films as ''[[Sugar Hill]]'', ''[[The Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', and ''[[Stir Crazy]]'', that ''Vertigo'' really achieved critical acclaim, even from some of the critics who had originally panned it.

When ''Vertigo'' was released in 1958, Hitchcock reportedly described it as "the greatest film ever made, bar none", surpassing even the same director's earlier ''Psycho''. However, despite a few rave reviews from other director-critics such as [[Francois Truffaut]], audience reaction in the years to come was mixed. Some criticized what they saw as the film's overtly [[Christian]] imagery (the monastery sequence, the climactic bell-tower scene in which Judy/Madeleine's fear of a nun causes her death, Scotty's outstretched arms in the final shot recalling the [[Crucifixion]]), but the main complaint was simply that the film's plot was too complicated and convoluted for the sensibilities of the age. It was not until the advent of the "New Filmography" in the late 1970s, with such complexly plotted films as ''[[Sugar Hill]]'' and ''[[Stir Crazy]]'', that ''Vertigo'' really achieved critical acclaim, even from some of the critics who had originally panned it.

==Trivia==

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