North by Northwest
It's a deadly game of 'tag' and Cary Grant is 'it'...

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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Turner Classic Movie
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Commentary by Screenwriter Ernest Lehman
- Music-Only Audio Track
- Dual Layer
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, French
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- Subtitles - English, French
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint | |
Performer: | James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, Philip Ober, Josephine Hutchinson & Martin Landau | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | George Tomasini | |
Screenwriting by | Ernest Lehman | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Art Direction by | Merrill Pye | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Burks |
Entertainment Reviews:
...NORTH BY NORTHWEST is the paragon for every action caper that's followed.
Premiere
By seeming to acknowledge the insanity that surrounds him and taking droll pleasure in it, Grant implicitly allows the audience to revel in it too.
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The Arts Desk
...The master's greatest toy...
Entertainment Weekly
...NORTH BY NORTHWEST is sequence after sequence of breathlessly exciting and amusing entertainment... -- 5 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Rating: 3.5/4 --
What a beautiful film. Hitchcock confirms his care for details in this romantic story about confusion, paranoia and surprising love. [Full review in Spanish].
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Cinelipsis
A hopelessly attenuated round of mistaken identity, cloak-and-dagger doings, sympathetic but helpless friendly agents, a double-dealing woman, and so forth.
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New Yorker
Rating: 4/5 --
Hitchcock breezes through a tongue-in-cheek, nightmarish plot with a lightness of touch that's equalled by a charming performance from Grant.
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Time Out
Product 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.
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.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Classic
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Romance
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Spies
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Suspense
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Thriller
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On-The-Run
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Mistaken Identity
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Recommended
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Blockbuster
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Theatrical Release
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Spy
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- Hitchcock cameo: The director can be seen missing a bus at the opening.
- Shot in studios and on location on Long Island, New York, and in Chicago, Rapid City, and South Dakota.
- Ernest Lehman received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Screenplay of 1959.
- NORTH BY NORTHWEST is number 40 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
- NORTH BY NORTHWEST was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1995.
- In 2001, Ernest Lehman received the first honorary Academy Award ever presented to a screenwriter.
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- Sales Rank: 1,100
- UPC: 883929157853
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