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North
by Northwest
Release date 18th October 1959
Country : USA
Running time : 136 mins
Genre : Thriller
Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Screenplay by Ernest Lehman
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy and caught at a murder scene with a knife. The chase involving the police and enemy agents ends at Mount Rushmore.
Wonderfully entertaining chase thriller which sums up all Hitchcock's movies in this sub genre and also influenced inferior films like the James Bond series. Cary Grant is the perfect hero, looking as dapper as ever only his suit gets a little dirty : it is fairly obvious Hitch wouldn't harm a hair on Grant's head. The love scenes with Grant and Saint are the slowest sections of the film but there are some great setpieces to compensate : the cropdusting plane attack and the finale at Mount Rushmore. Special mention should also be made of Bernard Hermann's score which is by turns romantic and exciting : the energy of the film is apparent right from the opening titles which never fail to send a shiver down my spine.
One of the films working titles was The Man In Lincoln's Nose.
James Stewart wanted to play Thornhill, MGM wanted to Gregory Peck.
DVD
available from Warner Home Video:Release date 18th October 1959
Country : USA
Running time : 136 mins
Genre : Thriller
Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Screenplay by Ernest Lehman
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy and caught at a murder scene with a knife. The chase involving the police and enemy agents ends at Mount Rushmore.
Wonderfully entertaining chase thriller which sums up all Hitchcock's movies in this sub genre and also influenced inferior films like the James Bond series. Cary Grant is the perfect hero, looking as dapper as ever only his suit gets a little dirty : it is fairly obvious Hitch wouldn't harm a hair on Grant's head. The love scenes with Grant and Saint are the slowest sections of the film but there are some great setpieces to compensate : the cropdusting plane attack and the finale at Mount Rushmore. Special mention should also be made of Bernard Hermann's score which is by turns romantic and exciting : the energy of the film is apparent right from the opening titles which never fail to send a shiver down my spine.
One of the films working titles was The Man In Lincoln's Nose.
James Stewart wanted to play Thornhill, MGM wanted to Gregory Peck.
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