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North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
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North by Northwest: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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- IT WAS CONCEIVED WHILE ITS WRITER AND DIRECTOR WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON SOMETHING ELSE. MGM hired Ernest Lehman (Sweet Smell of Success) to write the movie version of a novel called The Wreck of the Mary Deare, with Alfred Hitchcock assigned to direct.
- THE MOVIE WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT BERNARD HERRMANN. The legendary film composer, a Hitchcock collaborator since 1955's The Trouble with Harry, is the one who introduced Hitchcock to Ernest Lehman, thinking they'd hit it off.
- JAMES STEWART WANTED TO PLAY THE LEAD. Stewart had been in four Hitchcock movies at this point, and he wanted North by Northwest to be the fifth. But while Hitch loved him, he didn't think he was right for the glibly debonair Roger Thornhill.
- CARY GRANT HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON. The star found the screenplay baffling, and midway through filming told Hitchcock, "It's a terrible script.
North by Northwest is a 1959 spy thriller movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Ernest Lehman wrote the script, and Cary Grant stars in the lead role. The movie also stars Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The story is about the innocent Roger Thornhill getting caught up in the spy world. Bernard Hermann composed the music for the movie.
- Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited), Herman Coleman (associate)
Summaries. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt. Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan.
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
Apr 8, 2024 · North by Northwest, American suspense film, released in 1959, that is one of Alfred Hitchcock ’s most-entertaining movies. It was the fourth and last collaboration between the director and star Cary Grant. Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest.
