 Soured by this failure, Stewart avoided the genre and would not make another Western for four years.Stewart's collaboration with Hitchcock ended the following year with "Vertigo" (1958), in which he starred as an acrophobic former policeman who becomes obsessed with a woman (Kim Novak) he is shadowing.Although "Vertigo" has later become considered one of Hitchcock's key works and was ranked the greatest film ever made by the "Sight & Sound" critics poll in 2012, it met with unenthusiastic reviews and poor box-office receipts upon its release.