North By Northwest (1959)
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint
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Sales Rank: 5640
Category Keywords: Adventure Blockbuster Classic Essential Cinema Mistaken Identity On-The-Run Recommended Romance Spies Spy Suspense Theatrical Release Thriller
Rating: NR
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Editor's Note
NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and Indiana Jones films), the film is a cross-country roller-coaster ride with Alfred Hitchcock at the helm. The film is duly famous for several classic and indelible scenes, including the desert biplane encounter and the Mt. Rushmore climax. The original title was THE MAN IN LINCOLN'S NOSE, which was replaced by a reference to a line from William Shakespeare's HAMLET (in which Hamlet says, "I am but mad north-north-west."). The magical combination of Hitchcock and the debonair Grant--who made four wonderful films together--makes NORTH BY NORTHWEST a suspense-filled standout. When Thornhill finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, the world as he knows it comes to an end. Suddenly danger threatens as the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a killer. All of Thornhill's attempts to straighten things out only make matters worse--and soon the desperate man is on the run from murderous foreign operatives, the CIA, and the police. The supporting cast, including Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Martin Landau, is uniformly excellent.
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North By Northwest - DVD Review
By: Jesse Hassenger
filmcritic.com DVD Reviews
Published on: 10/23/2009 5:09 PM
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| It was with slight disappointment and definite surprise that I found, after years of intending to see it, Hitchcock’s North by Northwest coming in just under the top tier of his films. Watching Cary Grant hustle through a cross-country wrongly-accused thriller isn’t a bore, of course, but I felt the curious sensation of reacting to the film through a series of comparisons, trying to figure out where it fits on the Hitchcock scale: It’s not as disturbing as Psycho, not as suspenseful as Rear Window, not as mind-boggling as Vertigo....read the full review | |
Cast & Crew
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Leo G. Carroll |
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James Mason |
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Cary Grant |
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Jessie Royce Landis |
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Josephine Hutchinson |
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Philip Ober |
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Eva Marie Saint |
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Martin Landau |
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George Tomasini - Editor |
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Ernest Lehman - Screenwriter |
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Bernard Herrmann - Composer |
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William A. Horning - Production Designer |
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Robert Burks - Director of Photography |
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Merrill Pye - Art Director |
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Alfred Hitchcock - Producer |
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Alfred Hitchcock - Director |
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