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Overview. Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase. Alfred Hitchcock. Director. Ernest Lehman. Writer. Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
May 19, 2024 · North By Northwest 65th Anniversary. RELEASE DATE. May 19, 2024. Running time. 2HR 16MINS. Synopsis. An advertising executive (Cary Grant) finds himself in a lethal cross-country chase after being mistaken for a spy. Nominated for three Academy Awards®, including one for screenwriter Ernest Lehman, the film also features iconic performances by ...
Famous for a wild plane attack and a harrowing chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore, this is quintessential Hitchcock ("Psycho," "The Birds"). With Academy Award-winner Martin Landau ("Ed Wood," "The Majestic") as Mason's evil henchman, this film is the rare combination of action, suspense and humor. Thriller 1959 2 hr 10 min. 97%.
North by Northwest set the tone for many of the subsequent spy films of the 1960s and was an influence on the "James Bond" series — the helicopter attack in From Russia With Love (1963) bears more than a passing resemblance to the "crop duster" sequence and the use of glamourous lead actresses and iconic locations and landmarks in the Bond ...
“North by Northwest’s crop-duster scene—in which Cary Grant’s victim of mistaken identity finds himself in a fallow Indiana field, hunted by a low-flying biplane—is one of the most iconically thrilling moments in Alfred Hitchcock’s fiendishly clever body of work. But, according to Robert F. Boyle, who served as production designer ...
Release Date. 09/17/1959. North by Northwest distills Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessions, techniques, and themes into a singular, deliriously entertaining form. The legendary Master of Suspense piles a career’s worth of preoccupations and storytelling devices into his 1959 motion picture, an escapist yarn like no other, except others by Hitchcock.
