North by Northwest (Blu-ray)
It's a deadly game of 'tag' and Cary Grant is 'it'...
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North by Northwest
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 10, 2012
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Warner Home Video
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:
You know, whether the film is first- rate or not, that you are going to have fun there: because Hitchcock him- self is invincibly good fun and pretty well every- thing he touches becomes so too.
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The Spectator
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
Rating: 5/5 --
As the template for a certain kind of old-school confection - Cold War, Wrong Man - it's unbeatable.
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Financial Times
...The master's greatest toy...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 5/5 --
With North By Northwest truly being one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films, it was a pleasure to finally see it the way Hitchcock intended, on the big screen.
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FlickDirect
This is the purest piece of entertainment filmmaking we have had from him in some years; it is also, which does not inevitably follow, the most purely entertaining.
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Sight and Sound
...NORTH BY NORTHWEST is sequence after sequence of breathlessly exciting and amusing entertainment... -- 5 out of 5 stars
Total Film
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