North by Northwest (1959)
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 136m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
A Madison Avenue advertising man is mistaken for a secret agent by foreign-paid spies and is forced by circumstances to run from both them and the police, and adopt the identity of the man he is thought to be.
Review:
Superlative chase thriller and a classic Hitchcock scenario (a re-visit of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Saboteur and To Catch a Thief to name but three) but featuring several sequences in his best style, plus one or two spectacular set pieces, if you don't mind the undisguised trick shots. The dialogue crackles with innuendo, the Herrmann score swoops and menaces, and the Fifties cars and clothes never looked so good. The scene in the station in which Grant is just one of dozens of red-capped porters almost certainly inspired the basket scene in Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 136m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
A Madison Avenue advertising man is mistaken for a secret agent by foreign-paid spies and is forced by circumstances to run from both them and the police, and adopt the identity of the man he is thought to be.
Review:
Superlative chase thriller and a classic Hitchcock scenario (a re-visit of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Saboteur and To Catch a Thief to name but three) but featuring several sequences in his best style, plus one or two spectacular set pieces, if you don't mind the undisguised trick shots. The dialogue crackles with innuendo, the Herrmann score swoops and menaces, and the Fifties cars and clothes never looked so good. The scene in the station in which Grant is just one of dozens of red-capped porters almost certainly inspired the basket scene in Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 136m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
A Madison Avenue advertising man is mistaken for a secret agent by foreign-paid spies and is forced by circumstances to run from both them and the police, and adopt the identity of the man he is thought to be.
Review:
Superlative chase thriller and a classic Hitchcock scenario (a re-visit of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Saboteur and To Catch a Thief to name but three) but featuring several sequences in his best style, plus one or two spectacular set pieces, if you don't mind the undisguised trick shots. The dialogue crackles with innuendo, the Herrmann score swoops and menaces, and the Fifties cars and clothes never looked so good. The scene in the station in which Grant is just one of dozens of red-capped porters almost certainly inspired the basket scene in Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark.