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Scottie: One final thing I have to do... and then I'll be free of the past.

When Scottie reveals his first investigation of Madeleine to Elster in the men's club, Elster recounts the history of his wife saying that her great-grandmother was the mad Carlotta. But when he sums up the story at the end of the scene he says it was her grandmother. See more...

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Alfred Hitchcock appears 11 mins into the film walking past the building James Stewart is about to enter. See more...

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Vertigo (1958) - 4 corrections

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak (add more)

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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How does it happen that Madeleine/Judy is able to enter the McKittrick Hotel unnoticed by the manager, and leave unnoticed by either Scottie or the manager? So far as I could tell this was not explained by the fact we subsequently learn that she was an actress posing as Madeleine, as there should in any case have been someone in the room when they checked, and her car can't have got away on its own. [Madeleine/Judy could have slipped into the front entrance and snuck upstairs when the manager was busy, had her back turned, or was away from the desk for a few moments. Madeleine could have stayed in the room just long enough for Scotty to see her from the outside, then gone down a back staircase (quite common in an old building like this) and left in her car while Scotty and the manager were otherwise occupied. It was a bit risky, but it was possible.]

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When Mr. Elster is telling Scottie that his wife's car showed she drove 94 miles on the speedometer, he should have said odometer. [The fact that he said speedometer instead of odometer isnt a movie mistake. He simply mispoke, which is something people do all the time.]

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Carlotta's gravestone in Mission Dolores says "Dec 3 1831 - Mar 5 1857". So she was 25 when she died. But Elster later says to Scottie "Madeleine is 26, Carlotta Valdes committed suicide when she was 26". [A character mistake: Elster remembered and considered only the years in question as most of us would do.]

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When Scottie (James Stewart) and Madeleine (Kim Novack) are driving down the San Francisco Peninsula to the Spanish Mission, a back projection mistake has them driving on the left side of the road. [The road could have been a one-way because the divider line was a broken white line, not a yellow line. The opposite traffic lane might very well have been separated by the trees we see on the side of the road.]

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