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The advantage of having lived three score years or more is that we've seen most of the old films and know what a good film should be like. Especially those directed by the one and only Alfred Hitchcock.
North-by-Northwest is one such film and with Cary Grant as the good guy and James Mason as the ne'er do well, you just know that it will be a good yarn with all the twists and turns of a good thriller.
The film opens with Alfred Hitchcock ......... No! I'm not going to tell you. Try and spot him for yourself.
By the sort of coincidence that happens all the time Cary Grant is mistaken for a spy and the chase begins. Followed by the counter espionage boss played by the actor who played Mr. Waverley in The Man From Uncle series, Cary Grant is led a merry chase across America dodging bullets, a rogue aeroplane and a scheming woman plus an assortment of bad guys.
The acting is terrific which does justice to all the double dealing that goes with spies and counter espionage. Yet with Cary Grant you always get a hint of comedy that never makes a scene ridiculous but in my opinion adds a bit of realism to it.
I won't spoil the film for those who haven't seen it yet by chronicling the plot so I'll just confine myself to suggesting that this is a film worth seeing even if it is more than forty years old.
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Yeeeeeessssssss!!!!!!! I have to admit I would have been pretty embarrassed if I had got that wrong, having claimed this as the greatest movie ever!
jimbuck 26.03.2001 20:28
I'll put you out of your misery. It is when the bus doors close on him.
Crazy-Christian 26.03.2001 15:02
Good to see someone as enthusiastic about this movie as I am! Sorry, meant to rate this op ages ago but I wanted to finish my own one first. I'm desperately trying to remember how Hitch appears in this movie - I did my op from memory and reference to the screenplay. Is this the one where the bus doors shut on him? I'll have to get my copy of the video out to check and that means watching the whole film again. Good!
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