Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is not a spy. And he's certainly no murderer. Nevertheless, ... more
Thornhill's a wanted man: enemy agents want him dead, the police want him arrested, and a cool, mysterious blonde (Eva Marie Saint) just plain wants him. A victim of mistaken identity, Thornhill can't afford to make any mistakes of his own - so he embarks on a death-defying run for his life. Relentlessly pursued by plane, train and automobile, Thornhill's cross-country chase finally ends atop Mt. Rushmore where, if he doesn't watch his step, he could be in for a terrible fall. Nominated for three 1959 Academy Awards Alfred Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest' is a masterful blend of suspense and romance, one of the best and most thrilling movie adventures ever created.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger ... more
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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Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Advantages: Great story, direction, screenplay, very entertaining Disadvantages: Not as original or thought-provoking as some of Hitchcock's others
NorthByNorthwest is, at number 23 on the IMDB's greatest films list, one of Alfred Hitchcock's most enduringly popular movies. Made in 1959, it stars Cary Grant as a suave advertising exec fleeing from the police after being caught in the middle of a CIA undercover operation, even though Grant was about 55 years old when it was made!
He plays Roger Thornhill, an average kind of guy, albeit with a very well paid job and his own personal secretary. He's going to the theatre with his mother in the evening, but first meeting up with some guys in a hotel for drinks.
Suddenly, with no explanation, he is kidnapped and taken to the home of Lester Townsend. Much to everyone's bafflement, they begin calling him by the name George Caplin and asking him how much he knows about their plans. What plans? Who are these people? Who is ...
Advantages: A classic Herrmann score in complete form Disadvantages: most cues extremely short
After Vertigo proved to be a flop in the box-office, Alfred Hitchcock turned his sights to the more commercially inclined comedy, NorthbyNorthwest. Although focusing more on comedy and thrilling action instead of the more hitchcockian psychology of Vertigo and Psycho, NorthbyNorthwest is by no means inferior to the more disturbed Hitchcock films. Starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, the film details how a businessman Roger Thornhill (C. Grant) gets his identity mixed up with a fictional man, "George Kaplan," designed to be a Government smoke-screen to shield the real undercover agent Eve Kendall (Eva Marie sSaint). The man soon finds himself trying to survive assassins, the police and a crop-duster plane, ending up falling in love with the undercover agent as they happen to bump into each other on a train and the climactic finale ...
Advantages: Cast, story, score... Disadvantages: Possibly a little dated for a modern audience
inadvertantly fallen into a dangerous game of cat and mouse between a covert US goverment agency and the villainous Vandamm. Can Roger stay alive long enough to prove his innocence? Can he play a hand in bringing Vandamm to justice? And what of the mysterious Eve - will Roger ever find out what she's up to?
A routine spy thriller doesn't sound like much to get overly excited about and a routine spy thriller ISN'T somethign to get excited about - NorthByNorthwest (N by NW hereafter) ISN'T a routine spy thriller though. The talent is undoubtedly present but that's no guarantee of success...we've seen that demonstrated all too often.
N by NW is almost perfect for Hitchcock in that it allows him to spring surprises on us the audience seemingly at every turn. This is perfect material for Hitchcock as he's given the opportunity to place doubt in ...
Behind The Scenes Documentary Destination Hitchcock The Making OF North By Northwest, Audio Commentary By Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, Audio Track Of Bernard Herrmanns Masterful Score, Production Stills Gallery, Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio
1.78 Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English French
Professional reviews
Review
"...NORTH BY NORTHWEST is sequence after sequence of breathlessly exciting and amusing entertainment..." -- 5 out of 5 stars (Total Film, p.86, 01/03/2000)
DVD Description
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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